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Professor Ian Morris FBA

Long-term world history; comparative archaeology; the evolution of societies; quantitative history; history & archaeology of ancient Greece.
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2012
Subjects
Archaeology, Classics
Sections
Archaeology
Website
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/classics/cgi-bin/web/people/faculty/ian-morris

Current post

Jean and Rebecca Willard Professor of Classics, Stanford University

Publications

Why the West Rules--For Now: The Patterns of History and What they Reveal About the Future 2010

The Measure of Civilization: How Social Development Decides the Fate of Nations 2013

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Prof Dr Dr Hc Mult. Hermann Parzinger FBA

Prehistory in Europe, the Near East and Central Asia; the beginnings of sedentary life and domestication of plants and animals; early metallurgy; nomadism and cultural contacts in the Eurasian steppes in the 1st millenium BC

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Professor Alison Wylie FBA

Philosophy of the social and historical sciences; evidential reasoning in archaeology; feminist philosophy of science; standpoint theory; ethics and politics of community-based collaborative research; equity, diversity, inclusion in academia

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Professor Glynis Jones FBA

Evolutionary approaches to the origins and spread of agriculture; archaeobotany and biomolecular archaeology; the investigation of past cultivation practices through weed ecology and stable isotope analysis

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