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
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
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
