Professor Michael Watts FBA
The political economy of resources with a particular focus on the oil and gas and energy sectors, and on food and agriculture in the Global South (Africa in particular)
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2019
- Subjects
- Anthropology
- Sections
- Anthropology and Geography
Current post
University of California, Berkeley Emeritus Class of 63 and Chancellor’s Professor of Geography and Development Studies
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Gillian Rose FBA
Cultural geography: contemporary visual culture, especially photography and digital visualisations; the cultural representation and everyday experiencing of cities; visual research methodologies
Professor David Gellner FBA
The social anthropology of religion, politics and ethnicity in Nepal and South Asia, including caste and concepts of hierarchy, class, borderlands, activism, democracy and elections, Buddhism and Hinduism; Max Weber.
