Professor Jonathan Spencer FBA

Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2018
Subjects
Anthropology, Geography

Current post

Regius Professor of South Asian Language, Culture and Society, University of Edinburgh

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Dr Annabel Teh Gallop FBA

Writing traditions, book cultures and the art of the Qur’an in Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean world; Malay and Indonesian manuscripts, letters, documents and seals, and comparative Islamic diplomatics

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Professor Rosalind (Polly) O’Hanlon FBA

The early modern and colonial history of India; histories of empire, with particular reference to caste and gender; problems in intellectual history and historical methodology in the postcolonial world; history, language and culture of Maharashtra

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Professor Heonik Kwon FBA

The postcolonial Cold War; civil war memories in Vietnam and in Korea; death rituals and the politics of kinship; early fieldwork in indigenous Siberia; the heritage of internationalism in anthropology

Heonik Kwon FBA

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