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Professor Derek Gregory FBA

Social theory and human geography; colonial power, late modern war and military occupation in the Middle East; Orientalism and cultures of travel in Egypt, 1780-1920.
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2007
Subjects
Geography
Sections
Anthropology and Geography
Website
http://web.mac.com/derekgregory/iWeb/Site/Welcome.html

Current post

Peter Wall Distinguished Professor and Professor of Geography, University of British Columbia at Vancouver

Past appointments

Sidney Sussex College University of Cambridge University Lecturer in Geography and Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

1973 - 1989

University of Cambridge

1973 - 1989

Publications

Geographical imaginations 1994

The colonial present: Afghanistan, Palestine, Iraq 2004

War Cultures 2008

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Haidy Geismar FBA

Material, Visual and Digital anthropology with a focus on museums and colonial collecting, intellectual and cultural property, cultures of digitization, and contemporary art practice in global context

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Professor Anne Haour FBA

Archaeology and heritage of Africa and the Indian Ocean; archaeology, material culture, anthropological notions of value and identity, medieval empires and trade

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Professor Neil Adger FBA

Neil Adger's research interests include environmental geography; ecological economics; climate change adaptation; well-being, health, and demographic change; climate justice.

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