Professor David Gellner FBA

The social anthropology of religion, politics and ethnicity in Nepal and South Asia, including caste and concepts of hierarchy, class, borderlands, activism, democracy and elections, Buddhism and Hinduism; Max Weber.
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Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2024
Honours
FBA

Current post

Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford; Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford

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Professor Paul Boyle FBA

Population and health geography; family, gender and migration; health inequalities; migration and health; disease clustering; longitudinal and administrative data

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Professor Eyal Weizman FBA

The development, employment and presentation of advanced spatial and media evidence in the context of investigations into human rights violations and environmental destruction worldwide

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