Professor Nicholas Thomas FBA

Polynesia Melanesia Micronesia Anthropology Historical Anthropology
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2005
Subjects
Anthropology

Current post

Professor of Historical Anthropology, and Director, Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Past appointments

University of Cambridge Professor of Historical Anthropology, and Director, Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

2006 -

Goldsmiths, University of London Professor of Anthropology, Goldsmith's College, University of London

1999 - 2006

King's College University of Cambridge

1986 - 1989

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Peter Taylor FBA

Global Geography History of Geography Urban Studies

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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

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Professor Penny Harvey FBA

Anthropology of state effects, infrastructures, engineering, materiality and communicative practice drawing on long term ethnographic research in Peru and more recently in the UK. Current focus on nuclear waste disposal, emergent publics and the politics and temporalities of place-making

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