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Professor Oliver Rackham FBA

Geography - Environmental Studies and Management; History - History of Science, Ecological History
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2002
Year of birth
1939
Year of death
2015
Honours
OBE, FBA
Sections
Anthropology and Geography
Website
https://britac.ac.uk/biographical-memoirs-british-academy-fellows

Current post

Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Laura Bear FBA

Anthropology of the economy, bureaucracy, infrastructures and time; effects of the COVID-19 pandemic; community co-produced policy with government organisations

Laura Bear FBA

Professor Sherry Beth Ortner FBA

Social and cultural theory; historical anthropology; gender and feminist theory; anthropology of late capitalism/neoliberalism; film, media, and the culture industries; political activism. Sherpas of Nepal and anthropology of the Himalayas

Sherry Beth Ortner FBA (credit Timothy D. Taylor)

Professor James Secord FBA

History of science; science communication; natural history, evolution and geology in the 18th and 19th centuries

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