Mark co-convened the panel "Amphibious dwelling: exploring life between wet and dry" at the recent congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) in Göttingen, Germany. He also acted as discussant and helped us pinpoint some of the emergent issues in the work presented by different contributors. 

We are very happy to have won Mark as an additional partner in the DELTA project. His input is particularly valuable because of his work with Amazonian floodplain inhabitants that has inspired much of our thinking, for instance, on the concept of rhythm in anthropology. To anyone interested in amphibious lives, we highly recommend his monograph Life on the Amazon: the anthropology of a Brazilian peasant village among his other publications.

Mark is reader in social anthropology at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. He works on ethnohistory, ecological anthropology, knowledge in and methodology of the social sciences, and the practice of teaching and learning.