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
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Glynis Jones FBA
Evolutionary approaches to the origins and spread of agriculture; archaeobotany and biomolecular archaeology; the investigation of past cultivation practices through weed ecology and stable isotope analysis
Professor Jennifer Robinson FBA
Postcolonial critique of urban studies; comparative urbanism and global urban studies; rethinking urban development politics from South African, UK and African contexts; transnational and state actors in urban development.
Professor John Blair FBA
The society, culture and landscape of early medieval England, especially the Church and parochial organisation; historical and archaeological sources and approaches
