Professor Achille Mbembe FBA
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2023
- Subjects
- History, Politics
Current post
Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER), University of the Witwatersrand Research Professor in History and Politics
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor John Gledhill FBA
Social anthropology: thematic interests in comparative analysis of political life, power relations, social movements, the state, political economy, migration, conflict and security; regional specialisation in Latin American societies and history
Professor Georgina Born OBE FBA
Anthropology and sociology of music, media and digital cultures; anthropological theory; the social, the material, and time; cultural production, cultural institutions and creative industries; music in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries; interdisciplinarity; AI and culture; digital humanities and digital methods
Professor Xinjiang Rong FBA
History of Central Asia; Iranians (Sogodian, Khotantese) in China; cultural exchanges between China and the West from Han to Tang dynasties; Chinese history during the Sui, Tang dynasty and Five Dynasties Period, Dunhuang and Turfan manuscripts
