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 Sarah Green FBA

Sarah Green is a Social Anthropologist with expertise in the anthropology of space, place, borders and location.

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Professor Rebecca Cassidy FBA

Rebecca Cassidy's research interests are in social anthropology, particularly kinship and inequality, animal and plant breeding, betting and gambling, policy and public health.

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Professor Susan Owens FBA

Environmental governance: relations between land use planning, environment & sustainability; policy processes in modern democracies, especially the role of knowledge, ideas & advice in policy formation & change.

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