
Dr William Tantam
BA, MRes, PGCert, PhD
Current positions
Senior Lecturer
Department of Anthropology and Archaeology
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Research interests
My current research explores the experiences of victims and survivors of non-recent child sexual abuse. This includes experiences of disclosure, support, coping and wellbeing. It also includes creative practices and responses to traumatic experiences.
I am part of a network of therapists, counsellors, and academics, including professionals with lived experiences of child sexual abuse, sharing knowledge surrounding non-recent child sexual abuse and provides training to clinical and related staff in how to facilitate disclosures and support victims and survivors.
My prior anthropological work examined the embodiment and enactment of social hierarchies in Jamaica through a close study of 'pick up ball' (informal football matches) in a rural, coastal community. This work involved an examination of race and racisms, gender, class, age hierarchies, and contemporary mobilities. My ethnographic monograph An Ethnography of Football and Masculinities in Jamaica: Letting the football talk' was published by Bloomsbury in 2020.
I received my PhD in Anthropology from Goldsmiths in 2016. Since then I have held a postdoctoral position in Caribbean Studies at the Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS), and have lectured at the University of Liverpool and Goldsmiths. From 2019-2021 I worked as a Researcher with the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA). I joined the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at Bristol in 2022.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Animating change for survivors of online-facilitated child sexual abuse: Developing co-produced animations of key research findings from research with survivors of OFCSA
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Anthropology and ArchaeologyDates
01/04/2024 to 31/08/2024
Survivors’ Experiences of Online-Facilitated Child Sexual Abuse
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Anthropology and ArchaeologyDates
01/11/2023 to 31/08/2024
Publications
Recent publications
04/07/2023The truth project- paper two- using staff training and consultation to inculcate a testimonial sensibility in non-specialist staff teams working with survivors of child sexual abuse
Frontiers in Psychiatry
Brenda Elsey and Joshua Nadel, Futbolera: A History of Women and Sports in Latin America (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2019), pp. 358, $27.95, hb.
Journal of Latin American Studies
Memory, Migration and (De)Colonisation in the Caribbean and Beyond
Memory, Migration and (De)Colonisation in the Caribbean and Beyond
Higgler Tactics: Techniques of Intermediary Market Traders in Jamaica
The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
The Fieldwork Playlist – Editorial
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society