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Professor Almut Hintze FBA

The languages, religions and history of pre-Islamic Iran and Central Asia with special attention to Zoroastrianism; Ancient and Middle Iranian philology and linguistics
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2015
Subjects
Linguistics, Religion
Sections
Africa, Asia and the Middle East , Theology and Religious Studies , Linguistics and Philology
Website
http://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff31114.php

Current post

School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Zartoshty Brothers Professor of Zoroastrianism

2010 -

Other Fellows of the British Academy

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

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Professor Sheldon Pollock FBA

Sanskrit philology; Indian literature, intellectual history, history of aesthetics; theory of philology and of comparativism

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Professor Mary Dalrymple FBA

Descriptive and theoretical syntax and semantics; language documentation; Austronesian and Papuan languages; grammatical analysis within the theory of Lexical Functional Grammar

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