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Professor Ian Morris FBA

Long-term world history; comparative archaeology; the evolution of societies; quantitative history; history & archaeology of ancient Greece.
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2012
Subjects
Archaeology, Classics
Sections
Archaeology
Website
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/classics/cgi-bin/web/people/faculty/ian-morris

Current post

Jean and Rebecca Willard Professor of Classics, Stanford University

Publications

Why the West Rules--For Now: The Patterns of History and What they Reveal About the Future 2010

The Measure of Civilization: How Social Development Decides the Fate of Nations 2013

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Dr Leonardo López Luján FBA

The politics, religion, and art of Pre-Columbian urban societies in Central Mexico; the history and development of Mesoamerican archaeology

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Professor Chris Gosden FBA

Archaeology and Art, Colonial and World Archaeology, Prehistory of Britain, Eurasian Prehistory

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Professor John Baines FBA

Egyptology: art, archaeology, writing systems, religion, literature, social forms; comparative & theoretical study of early civilisations.

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