Carsten has conducted research in
Malaysia and
Britain. After completing her PhD at the
London School of Economics, she was a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the
University of Cambridge, and Lecturer at the
University of Manchester. She has given guest lectures and keynote addresses at
Johns Hopkins University, the
National University of Taiwan,
UCLA, the
University of Copenhagen, the
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales,
University of Michigan,
University of Toronto, the
University of Sao Paulo, and at the
Museu Nacional,
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She delivered the
Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture in 2012. During a three-year Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship from September 2007-10 she conducted research on articulations between popular and medical ideas about blood in Britain and Malaysia. In 2023, she was elected a member of the
Academia Europaea. Carsten is currently a Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. == Published works ==