Andrea Cornwall

Andrea Cornwall (born 14 October 1963) is a Professor of anthropology and development in the school of global studies at University of Sussex.

Cornwall is a political anthropologist who specialises in the anthropology of democracy, citizen participation, participatory research, gender and sexuality.

She has also been engaged in the women's empowerment and women's rights issues.Among the specific topics she has worked on are family planning from a woman's point-of-view; fertility and sexually transmitted diseases in Nigeria and Zimbabwe; rights of sex workers in India, and of domestic workers in Brazil; and the quality of democratic processes in Brazil.

Cornwall is also a Honorary Associate of the Institute of Development Studies, and was the Director of the "Pathways of Women’s Empowerment Research Programme Consortium", which ran from 2006 through 2014. This programme was funded by UKAid from the Department for International Development and its main aim was to elucidate factors that help create more equality and equity between men and women through collection of women's experiences in this sphere. The programme tried to make the experiences of many individual women visible to teach and inspire others.

Among the books that Cornwal has written are:

• Making Spaces, Changing Places: Situating Participation in Development (2002)
• Democratising Engagement: What the UK Can Learn from International Experience (2008)
• Changing ideals in a donor organisation: "participation" in Sida (2009)
• The Participant Reader (2011)

Cornwall has been a contributing or primary editor on several books as well:

• Cornwall, Andrea; Lindisfarne, Nancy, eds. (1994). Dislocating Masculinity. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-07942-X – via Internet Archive.
• Corwall, Andrea, ed. (2005). Readings in Gender in Africa. London: International African Institute. ISBN 0-253-34517-0 – via Google Books (Preview).
• Cornwall, Andrea; Edström, Jerker; Greig, Alan, eds. (2011). Men and Development. Zed Books. ISBN 978-1-84813-981-7 – via Google Books (Preview).
• Cornwall, Andrea; Harrison, Elizabeth; Whitehead, Ann, eds. (2013). Feminisms in Development (eBook ed.). Zed Books. ISBN 978-1-84813-669-4 – via Google Books (Preview).
• Cornwall, Andrea; Corrêa, Sonia; Jolly, Susie, eds. (2013). Development with a body (eBook ed.). Zed Books. ISBN 978-1-84813-646-5 – via Google Books (Preview).