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

Elected 2019

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 2019
Website: https://www.socanth.cam.ac.uk/directory/professor-harri-englund

Current post

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

Past appointments

Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge Director

Publications

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

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