Professor Georgina Born OBE FBA

Anthropology and sociology of music, media and digital cultures; anthropological theory; the social, the material, and time; cultural production, cultural institutions and creative industries; music in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries; interdisciplinarity; AI and culture; digital humanities and digital methods
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2014
Subjects
Anthropology, Media, performance and communications, Music

Current post

Princeton University Global Visiting Scholar

University College London Professor of Anthropology and Music

Past appointments

University of California, Irvine Distinguished Visiting Professor

2019 - 2019

Hong Kong University Rayson Huang Lecturer in Music

2018 - 2018

Aarhus Institute for Advanced Studies Senior Fellow

2018 - 2019

University of Oslo Visiting Professor II

2014 - 2019

University of California, Berkeley Bloch Distinguished Visiting Professor in Music

2014 - 2014

McGill University Schulich Distinguished Visiting Chair in Music

2013 - 2016

Mansfield College, Oxford Fellow

2012 - 2021

University of Oxford Professor of Music and Anthropology

2010 - 2021

University of Cambridge Professor of Sociology, Anthropology and Music

2006 - 2010

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Daniel Miller FBA

Anthropology of Social Media and Digital Anthropology. Anthropological approaches to material culture including clothing and homes; the role of objects in relationships; the process of consumption and the study of commerce and value

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Professor John Gledhill FBA

Social anthropology: thematic interests in comparative analysis of political life, power relations, social movements, the state, political economy, migration, conflict and security; regional specialisation in Latin American societies and history

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Professor Robert S C Gordon FBA

The cultural history, cinema, and literature of modern Italy; Holocaust literature (Primo Levi); postwar memory and culture of the Holocaust

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