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 Andrew George
Ancient Near Eastern Language and Literature, specifically Assyriology
Professor Carole Hillenbrand
Islamic history 1050-1250, especially Iran and Syria; Muslim perspectives of the crusades, the scholar al-Ghazali and the caliphate.
Professor Graham Furniss
Oral and written literatures of Africa; orality, performance and genre in the popular cultures of West Africa with particular reference to Hausa-speaking regions of Nigeria and Niger
Professor John Mack
The anthropology and history of art and material culture, especially in equatorial Africa and the western Indian Ocean; comparative work on themes such as memory, miniaturisation, and the experience of the environment
