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Professor Ian Simmons FBA

Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1997
Subjects
Geography
Sections
Anthropology and Geography
Website
http://www.dur.ac.uk/geography/staff/geogstaffhidden/?id=361

Current post

Emeritus Professor of Geography, University of Durham

Past appointments

University of Durham Professor of Geography

1981 - 2001

University of Bristol Professor of Geography

1977 - 1981

University of Durham Lecturer, Reader in Geography

1962 - 1977

Publications

Changing the face of the earth (1989)

The environmental impact of later mesolithic cultures (1996)

An environmental history of Great Britain (2001)

The Moorlands of England and Wales. An Environmental History 8000 BC to AD 2000 (2003)

Global Environmental History 10,000 BC to AD 2000 (2008)

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Kirsten Hastrup FBA

The entanglement of natural & social histories in Iceland & Greenland; the anthropological contribution to climate change research; the history of Artic anthropology; the foundations of anthropological knowledge

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Professor Roger Kain FBA

Historical Geography and Map History

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Professor James Secord FBA

History of science; science communication; natural history, evolution and geology in the 18th and 19th centuries

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