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 Jonathan D Rigg FBA
Agrarian transitions in Asia with a focus on livelihoods and living; migration, mobility and rural-urban relations; resilience and adaptation to natural hazards and environmental change; Southeast Asia area studies
Professor Jane M Jacobs FBA
Urban and Cultural Geography, built environment heritage, architecture and society, history of high-rise housing; indigenous land rights and cultural property, Aboriginal and settler relations, post-colonialism
