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

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 Veena Das FBA

Anthropology and philosophy with special emphasis on everyday life; anthropology of violence; the urban poor; ordinary ethics and feminism; kinship and religion; Indian philosophy and aesthetics

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Professor Tim O'Riordan FBA

Geography, Western Europe, the EU

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Professor Michael Goodchild FBA

The representation and analysis of phenomena distributed in space and time, especially the space of the Earth's surface; the application of geographic information systems to research in the social sciences and humanities.

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