Dr Claudio Vita-Finzi FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2012
- Subjects
- Anthropology, Archaeology
- Sections
- Archaeology , Anthropology and Geography
Summary
Claudio Vita-Finzi holds MA, PhD and ScD degrees from Cambridge. He has carried out fieldwork on recent geological changes and their human impact in the Near East, North Africa, S Europe, the Americas and SE Asia, taught neotectonics and planetary science at University College for some years, and is now a Scientific Associate at the Natural History Museum in London where he is working on changes in the Sun and their environmental impact. He was awarded the G K Warren Prize of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA in 1994 and has been a member of the American Philosophical Society since 1997. He was elected to the British Academy in 2012 (S3 and cross-member with H7).
Current post
Natural History Museum Scientific Associate, Earth Sciences
Publications
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Professor Koji Mizoguchi FBA
The archaeological study of social relations and their transformation by investigating communication as the minimum basic unit of social phenomena; investigating the linkage between archaeological practices and contemporary society
Professor Judith Carney FBA
Environment and society geography; gender, ecology and food systems in West Africa; African foods and slave agency in the historical geography of the Black Atlantic; agroecology and political ecology
Professor Ray Hudson FBA
Geography Political and Electoral Geography Developmental Geography Economic Geography
