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 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

Jonathan Rigg FBA

Professor Emma Tarlo FBA

Emma Tarlo's research interests are anthropology of material culture with reference to the politics of dress in India, the emergence of Islamic fashion in Britain and Europe and the global trade in human hair; and anthropological non-fiction writing and exhibition curation.

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