Mr Michael C A Macdonald FBA
Languages, scripts, inscriptions, and rock art in ancient Arabia and its environs; ancient literacy and its uses; the history of ancient Arabian cultures and of the ancient Near Eastern nomads
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2016
- Sections
- Africa, Asia and the Middle East
Current post
Research Associate, Faculty of Oriental Studies and Khalili Research Centre, University of Oxford; Honorary Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Andrew Peacock FBA
The history, intellectual culture, manuscripts and philology of the pre-modern Islamic world
Professor John Healey FBA
Aramaic inscriptions of the Roman-period Near East (especially Nabataen & Syriac); associated historical, religious & legal studies; early development of the Arabic script; Ugaritic, Hebrew & Syriac philology & literature
Professor Graham Furniss FBA
Oral and written literatures of Africa; orality, performance and genre in the popular cultures of West Africa with particular reference to Hausa-speaking regions of Nigeria and Niger
