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Professor Elizabeth Perry FBA

The history and politics of modern China, with special attention to traditions of rebellion and revolution and their influence on contemporary patterns of protest and governance
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2016
Sections
Africa, Asia and the Middle East
Website
http://gov.harvard.edu/people/elizabeth-j-perry

Current post

Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University, and Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute

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Professor Nicholas de Lange FBA

Hebrew language & literature: history of Greek-speaking Judaism; Jewish-Christian relations; modern Jewish theology

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Maritime Studies; Ethnography; Material Culture; Arabic Semantics; Socio-Cultural History

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Professor John Healey FBA

Aramaic inscriptions of the Roman-period Near East (especially Nabataen & Syriac); associated historical, religious & legal studies; early development of the Arabic script; Ugaritic, Hebrew & Syriac philology & literature

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