UK Fellow, Africa, Asia and the Middle East, elected in 1990
Professor Christopher Shackle FBA
About this Fellow
Oriental and African Studies
Appointments
Current post
- Emeritus Professor of Modern Languages of South Asia, University of London
Past Appointments
- Lecturer in Urdu and Panjabi, Soas, University Of London, 1969 - 1979
- Reader in Modern Languages of South Asia, Birkbeck College University of London, 1979 - 1985
- Pro-Director for Academic Affairs, Soas, University Of London, 1997 - 2003
- Professor of Modern Languages of South Asia, University of London, 1985 - 2008
- Emeritus Professor of Modern Languages of South Asia, University of London, Soas, University Of London, 1985
British Academy Appointments
- Member of Council | previously Member of Council 1995 - 1996, 2001 - 2004
Publications
A Guru Nanak glossary 1981
Qasida poetry in Islamic Asia and Africa (2 vols), 1996
Other Africa, Asia and the Middle East Fellows
Professor Derek Peterson
Intellectual and cultural history of eastern Africa; the composition of books; the politics of archives; the infrastructure of religious experience; the social practice of non-conformity; Idi Amin
