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Professor Dr Herbert Franke FBA

Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
1994
Year of birth
1914
Year of death
2011
Honours
FBA
Sections
Africa, Asia and the Middle East

Current post

Member, Committee for Central Asian Studies, Bavarian Academy of Sciences

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Irina Nikolaeva FBA

General linguistics; linguistic diversity and linguistic typology; language change; Uralic, Altaic and Palaeosiberian languages and linguistics; documentation and description of endangered languages

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Professor Gavin Flood FBA

Hindu religious literature in the Middle Ages (post-Gupta period); comparative religion, with particular reference to Hinduism and Christianity; philosophical phenomenology and hermeneutics

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Professor Dawn Chatty FBA

Middle Eastern ethnography particularly prolonged forced migration, and forced settlement of mobile indigenous peoples as well as biodiversity conservation, sustainable development, and the politics of pastoral livelihoods

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