Professor Almut Hintze FBA

The languages, religions and history of pre-Islamic Iran and Central Asia with special attention to Zoroastrianism; Ancient and Middle Iranian philology and linguistics
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2015
Subjects
Linguistics, Religion

Current post

School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Zartoshty Brothers Professor of Zoroastrianism

2010 -

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Nick Evans FBA

An anthropologist linguist. In addition to primary work recording the endangered indigenous languages of Australia & New Guinea, he has written widely on their implications for linguistics, cognitive science, anthropology, prehistory & other fields

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Professor Nick Chater FBA

The cognitive and social foundations of rationality & language; general principles of cognition; philosophical, economic & policy implications of cognitive science.

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Professor Alison Salvesen FBA

Early Jewish and Christian translation and reception of the Hebrew Bible (third century BCE – eighth century CE)

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