Professor Felix Driver FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2011
- Subjects
- Geography
Summary
Felix Driver is an historical geographer committed to scholarship and public engagement in the arts and humanities, including collaborations with museums and creative practitioners. He has undertaken research projects on the cultural history of collections and collecting, the visual culture of exploration, geography and empire, and imperial cities. He has supervised collaborative research projects with the British Library, the Science Museum, the V&A, the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, the Natural History Museum and the Royal Geographical Society. Currently he is Principal Investigator of the Mobile Museums project in collaboration with Kew Gardens.
Current post
Professor of Human Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London
Publications
Face to face with Nain Singh: the Schlagintweit collections and their uses
Felix Driveredited by Arthur MacGregor - Published in 2018 by Brill
Intermediaries and the archive of exploration
Felix Driveredited by Shino Konishi, Maria Nugent and Tiffany Shellam - Published in 2015 by ANU Press
Hidden Histories of Exploration: Researching Geographical Collections
Felix DriverLowri Jones - Published in 2009 by Royal Holloway, University of London
Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire 2005
Edited by Felix DriverLuciana Martins - Published in 2005 by The University of Chicago Press
Geography Militant: Cultures of Exploration and Empire
Felix Driver - Published in 2001 by John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imperial Cities: Landscape, Display and Identity
Felix DriverDavid Gilbert - Published in 1999 by Manchester University Press
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Linda Newson FBA
Historical geography; demographic and cultural change in colonial Latin America and the Philippines; Portuguese slave trade to Spanish America; history of medicine in early colonial Spanish America
Professor Robert J. Mayhew FBA
The interface of historical geography and intellectual history, in particular the intellectual history of British geography books, demography and migration, c 1660-1900
Professor Paul Gilroy FBA
African American literature and culture; the cultural history of postcolonial societies; the sociology of ethnicity, race and racism in Britain
