Benjamin Hildred
| Post Nominals | MA, PhD, AFHEA, FRAI. |
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| Biography | I did my undergraduate degree in Social Anthropology at St Andrews (2010-2014), before coming to Durham to complete a PhD in Anthropology (2017-2022). I am currently an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship in Anthropology at Durham from 2023-24. Broadly speaking, I interrogate the idea that sport can be deployed for social good. Previously, I looked at the supposed link between cricket and reconciliation in Sri Lanka. In my ethnographic research, I covered a wide spectrum of the cricket community in Colombo, thinking about cricket within the wider context of Sport for Development and Peace. During my upcoming fellowship, I will build on these findings, and examine the relationship between sport and social change more widely. I founded and now direct the International Network of Sport Anthropology in 2020, an ECR-focused group that currently has over 40 members from across the world, in the anthropology of sport and related sub-disciplines. We meet fortnightly on Zoom to discuss each other’s work and to run workshops on related topics. If you are interested in joining us, please email admin@sportanthro.org or visit our website www.sportanthro.org |
| Research Interests | Cricket Reconciliation Social Change Sport for Development and Peace Sri Lanka Anthropology of Sport |