Professor Henry Smith FBA

Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1985
Year of death
2024

Last post

University College London Emeritus Professor of Egyptology

Past appointments

University College London Edwards Professor of Egyptology

1970 - 1986

University College London Honorary Curator, Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology

1963 - 1970

Christ's College University of Cambridge Budge Fellow in Egyptology

1955 - 1963

University of Cambridge Lecturer in Egyptology

1954 - 1963

Publications

The Sacred Animal Necropolis at North Saqqara: the Archaeological Report 3 vols, (2006)

The Anubieion at Saqqara I: the settlement and the temple precinct (1988)

Saqqara demotic papyri I (1983)

The fortress of Buhen (2 vols) (1976, 1979)

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Professor Sujit Pradin Sivasundaram FBA

World history, especially since 1750: sciences and environments; race and racisms; the Indian and Pacific Oceans; Sri Lanka and South and Southeast Asia; material cultures; cities; human-animal relations; empires

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Professor Richard Widdess FBA

Musicology of South Asia, including history, theory, analysis and social context of music in North India and Nepal; music and religion in South Asia; analysis of world music; music cognition, performance and meaning in oral traditions

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Professor Sheldon Pollock FBA

Sanskrit philology; Indian literature, intellectual history, history of aesthetics; theory of philology and of comparativism

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