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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)
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Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2019
Subjects
Anthropology
Sections
Anthropology and Geography
Website
https://geography.berkeley.edu/michael-watts

Current post

University of California, Berkeley Emeritus Class of 63 and Chancellor’s Professor of Geography and Development Studies

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Professor Katherine J. Clarke FBA

The relationship between space and time in ancient historical narratives; Greek and Roman geographical traditions as reflective of changing geopolitical realities; kingly power in the Roman Principate

Katherine J. Clarke FBA (credit Charlie Burnand)

Professor Elizabeth Edwards FBA

Social and cultural histories of photographic practices; photography, anthropology and colonialism; history of museums, archives, collecting and cultural heritage; photographs in historiography, theory of history and historical method

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Dr Claudio Vita-Finzi FBA

Environmental change with special reference to the solar factor.

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