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Professor Derek Gregory FBA

Social theory and human geography; colonial power, late modern war and military occupation in the Middle East; Orientalism and cultures of travel in Egypt, 1780-1920.
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2007
Subjects
Geography
Sections
Anthropology and Geography
Website
http://web.mac.com/derekgregory/iWeb/Site/Welcome.html

Current post

Peter Wall Distinguished Professor and Professor of Geography, University of British Columbia at Vancouver

Past appointments

Sidney Sussex College University of Cambridge University Lecturer in Geography and Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

1973 - 1989

University of Cambridge

1973 - 1989

Publications

Geographical imaginations 1994

The colonial present: Afghanistan, Palestine, Iraq 2004

War Cultures 2008

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Michael Watts FBA

The political economy of resources with a particular focus on the oil and gas and energy sectors, and on food and agriculture in the Global South (Africa in particular)

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Professor Ruth Mace FBA

The evolution of human behaviour and culture, especially demography and anthropology; the evolutionary ecology of reproduction, cultural phylogenetics, and the evolution of co-operative behaviour

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Professor Sarah Curtis FBA

Geographies of health and health care; socio-geographical conditions and processes associated with health inequalities and risks for physical and mental health

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