Professor Simone Dennis
Areas of expertise
- Social And Cultural Anthropology 160104
- Public Health And Health Services 1117
Research interests
My research interests coalesce around phenomenologically informed anthropological theories of embodiment, the sense, and power. These interests are presently explored in ethnographic work on Christmas Island, which is framed by the politics of nationhood in contemporary Australia and the ways in which they have played out for Christmas Island's multi-ethnic population; in work among Persian women migrants, who have fled Iran in the past two decades; in research conducted in the technoscientific spaces of major Australian research laboratories in which mice and rats feature as animal models for human disease research; and in my fourth monograph, which looks at smoking practice in Australian urban spaces to look closely at the ways in which smoking entails and occasions social and corporeal relationships with others under increasingly legislated conditions governing space and behaviour and comportment within it.
Publications
- Dennis, S 2018, 'Becoming enwinded: A new materialist take on smoking pleasure', International Journal of Drug Policy, vol. 51, pp. 69-74pp.
- Dennis, S 2018, 'Analysing Smokefree: Notes on Senses, Smoke and Violence', Anthropological Forum, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 171-182pp.
- Dennis, S & Musharbash, Y 2018, 'Anthropology and Smoke: Editors' Introduction to the Smoke Special Issue', Anthropological Forum, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 107-115pp.
- Dennis, S 2016, Smokefree: A Social, Moral and Political Atmosphere, Bloomsbury Academic, London and New York.
- Dennis, S 2016, 'A Touching Analysis: Of Thirdhand Smoke, Family, Publics and touch', Contemporary Drug Problems, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 154-168.
- Jowsey, T, Yen, L, Dennis, S et al 2016, 'Time to manage: patient strategies for coping with an absence of care coordination and continuity', Sociology of Health and Illness, vol. 38, no. 6, pp. 854-873.
- Dennis, S & Witchard, A 2015, 'We have never been meat (but we could be)', in Human Animal Research Network Editorial Collective (ed.), Animals in the Anthropocene: critical perspectives on non-human futures, Sydney University Press, Sydney, pp. 151-164.
- Haines-Saah, R, Bell, K & Dennis, S 2015, 'A qualitative content analysis of cigarette health warning labels in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States', American Journal of Public Health, vol. 105, no. 2, pp. e61-e69.
- Bell, K, Dennis, S, Robinson, J et al 2015, 'Does the hand that controls the cigarette packet rule the smoker? Findings from ethnographic interviews with smokers in Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom and the USA', Social Science and Medicine, vol. 142, pp. 136-144.
- Dennis, S 2015, 'Explicating the Air: The new Smokefree (and beyond)', Australian Journal of Anthropology, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 196-210.
- Dennis, S 2014, 'Engaging with Animals', in Georgette Leah Burns, Mandy Paterson (ed.), Engaging with animals: interpretations of a shared existence, Sydney University Press, Sydney, pp. 39-52.
- Dennis, S 2014, 'No smoking within nine metres of discipline limits', Medicine Anthropology Theory, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 13-20.
- Dennis, S 2013, 'Ambiguous mice, speaking rats: Crossing and affirming the great divides in scientific practice', Anthrozoos, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 505-517.
- Dennis, S 2013, 'Researching smoking in the new smokefree: Good anthropological reasons for unsettling the public health grip', Health Sociology Review, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 282-290.
- Dennis, S 2013, 'Golden chocolate olive tobacco packaging meets the smoker you thought you knew: The rational agent and new cigarette packaging legislation in Australia', Contemporary Drug Problems, vol. 40, pp. 71-97.
- Bell, K & Dennis, S 2013, 'Towards a critical anthropology of smoking: exploring the consequences of tobacco control', Contemporary Drug Problems, vol. 40, pp. 3-19.
- Dennis, S 2011, 'Smoking causes creative responses: on state antismoking policy and resilient habits', Critical Public Health, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 25-35.
- Dennis, S 2011, For the Love of Lab Rats: Kinship, Humanimal Relations, and Good Scientific Research, Cambria Press, New York.
- Dennis, S 2011, 'Smoking causes creative reponses: on state anti-smoking policy and resilient habits', in Kirsten Bell, Darlene McNaughton, Amy Salmon (ed.), Alcohol, Tobacco and Obesity: Morality, mortality and the new public health, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon, UK, pp. 119-131.
- Dennis, S 2011, 'Ambiguous rats and ambivalent mice: crossing the great divides in scientific practice', in Jacob Bull (ed.), Animal Movements, Moving Animals: Essays on direction, velocity and agency in humanimal encounters, Uppsala University, Uppsala, pp. 75-96pp.
- Dennis, S & Warin, M 2010, 'Honeyed tongues and hostile intimacy: Engaging trauma across migrant worlds', Emotion, Space and Society, vol. 3, pp. 50-55.
- Dennis, S 2009, 'Seeing Red, Tasting Blood: Sensual Citizenship on Christmas Island', The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 186-199.
- Dennis, S 2009, 'Book Review: The Shadow Side of Fieldwork: Exploring the Blurred Borders between Ethnography and Life', The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 150-152.
- Dennis, S 2009, 'Of crustacean blood and ant infection: Life in the migration exclusion zone, Christmas Island, Australia', Australian Journal of Anthropology, The, vol. 20, pp. 213-228.
- Warin, M & Dennis, S 2009, 'Telling silences: unspeakable trauma and the unremarkable practices of everyday life', in Joanna Elizabeth Latimer and Michael W J Schillmeier (ed.), Un/knowing Bodies, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Norwich UK, pp. 100-116.
- Dennis, S 2009, 'Book Review: Medical Anthropology', Health Sociology Review, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 335-337.
- Dennis, S 2008, 'Four Milligrams of Phenomenology: An Anthrophenomenological Analysis of Smoking Cigarettes', Popular Culture Review, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 41-57.
- Dennis, S 2008, Christmas Island: an anthropological study, Cambria Press, Amherst, N.Y.
- Dennis, S 2007, Police Beat: The Emotional Power of Music in Police Work, Cambria Press, New York.
- Dennis, S & Warin, M 2007, 'Domestic temporalities: Sensual patterning in Persian Migratory Landscapes', Indo Pacific Journal of Phenomenology, vol. 7, no. 2, p. 9.
- Dennis, S 2006, The Glass Ceiling: Female Participation in the Workforce Anthropological Openion Piece, The Chronicle Newspaper.
- Dennis, S 2006, Why we personalize everything. Anthropological Opinion Piece, The Chronicle Newspaper.
- Warin, M & Dennis, S 2005, 'Threads of Memory: Reproducing the cypress tree through sensual consumption', Journal of Intercultural Studies, vol. 26, no. 1-2, pp. 159-170.
- Dennis, S 2004, 'Melted Honey: Sax and Sex', Popular Culture Review, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 47-61.