Professor Harri Englund FBA

African-language political and moral thought; the historical-linguistic translation of freedom, equality and human rights; the racial and humanitarian politics of Christian missions in 19th-century Africa
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2019

Current post

Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge; Fellow and Director of Studies, Churchill College, Cambridge

Past appointments

Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge Director

Publications

Visions for Racial Equality

Harri Englund - Published in 2022 by Cambridge University Press

Gogo Breeze: Zambia’s Radio Elder and the Voices of Free Speech

Harri Englund - Published in 2018 by University of Chicago Press

Human Rights and African Airwaves: Mediating Equality on the Chichewa Radio

Harri Englund - Published in 2011 by Indiana University Press

Christianity and Public Culture in Africa

Ed. by Harri Englund - Published in 2011 by Ohio University Press

Prisoners of Freedom: Human Rights and the African Poor

Harri Englund - Published in 2006 by University of California Press

Rights and the Politics of Recognition in Africa

Ed. by Harri Englund and Francis B. Nyamnjoh - Published in 2004 by Zed Books

From War to Peace on the Mozambique-Malawi Borderland

Harri Englund - Published in 2002 by Edinburgh University Press

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Sarah Franklin FBA FRSB FAcSS

Social study of new reproductive technologies and bioscience; histories and cultures of IVF; gender theory; new kinship studies; reproductive sociology; anthropology of reproduction

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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

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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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