Andrew Sanchez

Andrew Sanchez is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. He is a specialist on the anthropology of class, labour and corruption, and has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in urban India among industrial workers, trade unionists and entrepreneurs.

He is the author of ‘Criminal Capital: Violence, Corruption and Class in Industrial India’ (Routledge 2015), which considers how experiences of dispossession relate to criminality in corporations and political institutions.

Andrew earned his PhD in anthropology from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2009. Prior to joining the University of Cambridge, he held teaching and research positions at the LSE, the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, and the University of Kent.

Andrew is currently conducting an ethnographic study of the Indian scrap metal industry, which addresses key conceptual debates in the anthropology of value, exchange and work. From 2018 he will begin new research in the UK, which considers how conditions of uncertainty affect political and economic decision making for the urban poor.