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Dr Joseph Needham FBA

History; Oriental and African Studies
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1971
Year of birth
1900
Year of death
1995
Honours
CH, FRS, FBA
Sections
Africa, Asia and the Middle East

Current post

Emeritus Director, East Asian History of Science Library

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Clive Holes FBA

Middle Eastern and African Languages and Literatures

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Professor Rosemary Foot FBA

International Relations, with special reference to security studies in the Asia-Pacific, including US-China relations, human rights, Asian regional institutions, and East Asian regional governance

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Professor James Montgomery FBA

Classical Arabic literature, literary translation, literary history, history of ideas.

James Montgomery FBA

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