Susanne Küchler

Susanne Küchler, FBA is a German anthropologist and academic, who specialises in material culture. Since 2006, she has been a professor at University College London. She previously worked at the University of East Anglia and the Johns Hopkins University.

Early life and education Küchler studied anthropology at the Free University of Berlin in Germany, graduating with a magister degree in 1981. From 1986 to 1990, she was an assistant professor of anthropology and art history at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, United States. She was a full-time lecturer from 1994 to 1999, a senior lecturer from 1999 to 2002, and a Reader from 2002 to 2006. In 2010, she became head of the Department of Anthropology at UCL; she will hold the post for ten years.

Selected works