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    Stephen Lyon

    Professor

    Inaugural Dean

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    Education

    PhD in Anthropology, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK, 2002.
    Bachelor of Science in Anthropology, Goldsmiths' College, University of London, UK, 1993.

    Current areas of teaching

    Anthropology, Research Methods

    Research interests

    Rural and Urban Pakistan. Conflict. Natural Resource Management. Social Network Analysis. Politics.

    Experience

    President of the Society for Anthropological Sciences 2019-2021

    Professional associations

    Society for Applied Anthropology. Royal Anthropological Institute. Society for Anthropological Sciences

    Publications

    Bolognani, M., and S. Lyon. 2006. ‘Celebrating 20 Years of the Lake District Pakistan Workshop’. Contemporary South Asia 15 (3). https://doi.org/10.1080/09584930601097945.

    Bolognani, Marta, and Stephen Lyon. 2006. ‘Special Issue: Celebrating 20 Years of the Lake District Pakistan Workshop’.

    Bolognani, Marta, and Stephen M Lyon. 2011. ‘Being Pakistani beyond Europe and South Asia’. In Pakistan and Its Diaspora: Multidisciplinary Approaches, edited by Marta Bolognani and Stephen M Lyon, 239–55. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230119079_10.

    Cheema, Nadir, and Stephen M. Lyon, eds. 2022. Pakistan Left Review: Then and Now. Karachi and Oxford: Oxford University Press.

    Fischer  Stephen M., Michael D Lyon. 2004. ‘George Peter Murdock’. In , edited by Vered Amit, 367–69. London: Routledge.

    Fischer, M.D., D. Read, and S.M. Lyon. 2005. ‘Cybernetics and Systems: An International Journal: Introduction’. Cybernetics and Systems 36 (8). https://doi.org/10.1080/01969720500356654.

    Fischer, Michael D, Stephen M Lyon, Daniel Sosna, and David Henig. 2013. ‘Harmonizing Diversity: Tuning Anthropological Research to Complexity’. Social Science Computer Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/0894439312455311.

    Fischer, Michael D, Stephen M Lyon, and David Zeitlyn. 2017. ‘Online Environments and the Future of Social Science Research’. In The SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods, edited by Nigel G Fielding, Raymond M Lee, and Grant Blank, 2nd ed., 611–27. London: Sage Publications, Ltd. https://www.book2look.com/book/JXs8IUbgaw.

    Fischer, Michael D, Dwight Read, and Stephen M Lyon. 2005a. ‘Introduction (to Special Issue on Cultural Systems, Edited by M.D. Fischer, D. Read and S.M. Lyon)’. Cybernetics and Systems: An International Journal 36 (8): 719–34.

    ———. 2005b. ‘Special Issue on Cultural Systems’. Cybernetics and Systems: An International Journal 36 (8). http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=g727124922~db=all.

    Fischer Michael *Lyon, Stephen Zeitlyn David. 2008. ‘The Internet and the Future of Social Science Research’. In The Sage Handbook of Online Research Methods., edited by Raymond M Blank Grant Fielding Nigel Lee. London: SAGE Publications. http://www.sagepub.co.uk/fielding.

    Judson, E., S. Bell, H. Bulkeley, G. Powells, and S. Lyon. 2015. ‘The Co-Construction of Energy Provision and Everyday Practice: Integrating Heat Pumps in Social Housing in England’. Science and Technology Studies 28 (3).

    Kastrinou, Maria, and Stephen M Lyon. 2013. Like Children’s Eyes. Vimeo. https://vimeo.com/86174865.

    Lyon  David Fischer Michael D., Stephen M Zeitlyn. 2002. ‘Finding the “good Stuff” on the Web: A Review of SOSIG’. Anthropology Today 18 (3): 27–27.

    Lyon, S. 2003. ‘Nomadism and Colonialism: A Hundred Years of Baluchistan, 1872-1972’. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

    Lyon, S M. 2015. ‘Impossible Citizens: Dubai’s Indian Diaspora’. History and Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2015.1015105.

    Lyon, S.M. 2010. ‘Genealogy, Kinship, and Knowledge: A Cautionary Note about Causation’. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 33 (5). https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X10002244.

    ———. 2013. ‘Localizing the Internet: An Anthropological Account by Postill, John’. Social Anthropology 21 (1). https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12004_18.

    Lyon, S.M., and M. Bolognani. 2011. Pakistan and Its Diaspora. Edited by Marta Bolognani and Stephen M. Lyon. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230119079.

    Lyon, Stephen. 2021. ‘Chrisomalis, Stephen. Reckonings: Numerals, Cognitions, and History. Xvii, 264 Pp., Bibliogr. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2020. £30.00 (Cloth)’. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 27 (4): 1024–25. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13639.

    Lyon, Stephen M. 1999a. ‘“Open” Ethnography and the Internet in the Field: Increased Communications, Feedback, and Usability Versus Technical and Ethical Issues’. Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford 30 (1): 51–66.

    ———. 1999b. Social Organisation, Economy and Development. http://era.anthropology.ac.uk/.

    ———. 2000. ‘”Open’ Doctoral Research: Work–in–Progress’’. iNtergraph: Journal of Dialogic Anthropology 1 (1). http://www.intergraphjournal.com/enhanced/articles/article4/Open doctoral research.htm.

    ———. 2002a. ‘Local Arbitration and Conflict Deferment in Punjab, Pakistan’. Anthropologie. 40 (1): 59–71.

    ———. 2002b. ‘Power and Patronage in Pakistan’. PhD in Anthropology, Canterbury: University of Kent. https://dro.dur.ac.uk/183/.

    ———. 2004a. An Anthropological Analysis of Local Politics and Patronage in a Pakistani Village. Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press. http://www.mellenpress.com/mellenpress.cfm?bookid=5732&pc=9.

    ———. 2004b. ‘“Indirect” Symbolic Violence and Rivalry between Equals in Rural Punjab, Pakistan’. Durham Anthropology Journal. 12 (1): 37–50.

    ———. 2004c. ‘Modeling Context in Punjabi Conflict Resolution: Social Organizations as Context Agents’. Cybernetics and Systems. 35 (2--3): 193–210.

    ———. 2004d. ‘Putting Social Engineering on the Back Burner : Teaching Priorities in Formal Education in Rural Punjab, Pakistan’. Anthropology in Action : Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice. 11 (1): 35–44.

    ———. 2005a. ‘Culture and Information: An Anthropological Examination of Communication in Cultura Domains in Pakistan’. Cybernetics and Systems: An International Journal 36 (8): 919–32.

    ———. 2005b. ‘In the Shadow of September 11: Multiculturalism and Identity Politics’. In Muslim Britain: Communities Under Pressure, edited by Tahir Abbas, 78–91. London: Zed.

    Lyon, Stephen M. 2014. ‘Changing of the Guard’. History and Anthropology 25 (5): 551–52. https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2014.967084.

    Lyon, Stephen M. 2015. ‘Review of Impossible Citizens: Dubai’s Indian Diaspora’. History and Anthropology 26 (2): 260–62. https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2015.1015105.

    ———. 2017. ‘On Brothers and Sisters: South Asian and Japanese Idea Systems and Their Consequences’. World Cultures 22 (1). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2f00s96z.

    ———. 2018. ‘Addressing #MeToo and Exploitation in Anthropology’. Anthropology News 59 (4): e302–5. https://doi.org/10.1111/AN.949.

    Lyon, Stephen M. 2019a. ‘Challenging the Landed Elite in Contemporary Pakistani Politics’. Journal of Legal Anthropology 3 (1): 41–61. https://doi.org/10.3167/jla.2019.030103.

    Lyon, Stephen M. 2019. Conflict and Security. The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Major Reference Works. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea2011.

    Lyon, Stephen M. 2019b. ‘Patronage and Clientelism’. In SAGE Research Methods Foundations, edited by Paul Atkinson, Sara Delamont, Alexandru Cernat, Joseph W. Sakshaug, and Richard A. Williams. London: SAGE Publications Ltd. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781526421036814729.

    ———. 2019c. Political Kinship in Pakistan: Descent, Marriage and Government Stability. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498582186/Political-Kinship-in-Pakistan-Descent-Marriage-and-Government-Stability.

    ———. 2019d. ‘What’s the Point of Sections?’ Anthropology News website. https://doi.org/10.1111/AN.1332.

    ———. 2020. ‘Potohari Punjabi of Pakistan’. In Native Nations: The Survival of Indigenous Peoples, edited by Sharlotte Neely and Douglas W. Hume, 3rd ed. J. Charlton Publishing. http://nativenations.anthroniche.com/.

    ———. 2022. ‘Internally Displaced People: A Social-Cultural-Technical Challenge’. Geo News, 10 November 2022, sec. Opinion. https://www.geo.tv/latest/451473-internally-displaced-people-a-social-cultural-technical-challenge.

    ———. 2024. ‘Giving Up the Field: When Friendships Outweigh Scholarship’. In The Multi-Sided Ethnographer Living the Field beyond Research, edited by Tim Burger, Usman Mahar, Pascale Schild, and Anna-Maria Walter, 1. Auflage, 151–64. Bielefeld: transcript.

    Lyon, Stephen M., and Mirat Al Fatima Ahsan. 2022. ‘A Complex Educational Landscape: The Impossible Choices of Private, Public and Language Options in Pakistan’. In Education in Troubled Times: A Global Pluralist Response, edited by Yahia Baiza. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-8602-4.

    Lyon, Stephen M., and Marta Bolognani. 2011. ‘Reflections and Representations: Shifting Gazes and the Curse of Truths’. In Pakistan and Its Diaspora: Multidisciplinary Approaches, edited by Marta Bolognani and Stephen M. Lyon. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

    Lyon, Stephen M., and Iain R. Edgar. 2010. Shaping a Nation: An Examination of Education in Pakistan. Edited by Stephen M. Lyon and Iain R. Edgar. Oxford in Pakistan Reading in Sociology and Social Anthropology. Karachi: Oxford University Press.

    Lyon, Stephen M, and Michael D Fischer. 2006. ‘Anthropology and Displacement: Culture, Communication and Computers Applied to a Real World Problem.’ Anthropology in Action. 13 (3): 40–53. https://doi.org/10.3167/aia.2006.130305.

    Lyon, Stephen M., and Sohaila Ashraf Hassan. 2022. ‘Kinship, Factions and Survival in Pakistani Politics’. Soziale Systeme 25 (1): 145–64. https://doi.org/10.1515/sosys-2020-0006.

    Lyon, Stephen M, and David Henig. 2013. ‘Paper as a Serious Method of Concern’. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 3 (3): 421–25.

    Lyon, Stephen M, Mark A Jamieson, and Michael D Fischer. 2015. ‘Persistent Cultures: Miskitu Kinship Terminological Fluidity’. Structure and Dynamics: eJournal of Anthropological and Related Sciences 8 (1). http://escholarship.org/uc/item/6w65n7sf.

    Lyon, Stephen M, and Simeon S Magliveras. 2006. ‘Kinship, Computing and Anthropology’. Social Science Computer Review 24 (1): 30–42.

    Lyon, Stephen M, and Muhammad A Z Mughal. 2017. ‘Categories and Cultural Models of Nature in Northern Punjab, Pakistan’. World Cultures 22 (2). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/77w806mp.

    Lyon, Stephen M, and Muhammad Aurang Zeb Mughal. 2016. ‘Ties That Bind:Marital Networks and Politics in Punjab, Pakistan’. Structure and Dynamics: eJournal of Anthropological and Related Sciences 9 (2). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5378v2fx.

    Lyon, Stephen M., and Muhammad Aurang Zeb Mughal. 2019. ‘Cultural Models of Nature and Divinity in a Rain Fed Farming Village of Punjab, Pakistan’. In Cultural Models of Nature Primary Food Producers and Climate Change, edited by Giovanni Bennardo, 141–64. Oxford: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Cultural-Models-of-Nature-Primary-Food-Producers-and-Climate-Change-1st/Bennardo/p/book/9780815356585.

    Lyon Stephen M. Sillitoe, Paul. Wilson Robin. 2005. ‘Implementation of E--Science Tools for Complex Analysis of Human--Environmental Interaction.’ In First International Conference on E--Social Science. NCeSS. http://www.ncess.ac.uk/events/conference/2005/papers/.

    Powells, Gareth, Sandra Bell, EllisP. Judson, StephenM. Lyon, Robin Wardle, KlaraAnna Capova, and Harriet Bulkeley. 2015. ‘Fostering Active Network Management through SMEs’ Practises’. Energy Efficiency, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12053-015-9382-y.

    Ruiter, Jan de, Gavin Weston, and Stephen M Lyon. 2011. ‘Dunbar’s Number: Group Size and Brain Physiology in Humans Reexamined’. American Anthropologist 113 (4): 557–68.

    Zeitlyn, David, and Stephen M Lyon. 2012. ‘Varieties of Openness and Types of Digital Anthropology’. Durham Anthropology Journal 18 (2): 97–111.

     

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