Professor Hastings Donnan FBA

The comparative study of borders that have experienced conflict, violence and war; related issues of trauma, memory and displacement; border crossings, transitions and transgressions; Islam; Ireland; Pakistan
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2013
Subjects
Anthropology

Summary

Hastings Donnan is Director of the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation and Social Justice and co-Director of the Centre for International Borders Research. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, a Fellow of the Academy for Social Sciences and was chair of the Anthropology and Development Studies subpanel for the UK's Research Excellence Framework in 2014.

Current post

Professor of Anthropology and Director, The Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, Queen's University Belfast

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