Professor Patricia Crone FBA

Islamic history and culture up to the Mongols, especially the transition from late antiquity to Islam
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2013
Year of birth
1945
Year of death
2015
Honours
FBA

Current post

Mellon Professor of Islamic Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Henrietta Harrison FBA

The social and cultural history of China from the Qing through to the present, especially rural north China, links between transnational and local history, religion, diplomacy and revolution

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Professor Derek Peterson FBA

Intellectual and cultural history of eastern Africa; the composition of books; the politics of archives; the infrastructure of religious experience; the social practice of non-conformity; Idi Amin

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Professor David Mosse FBA

Historical anthropology of religion, social-political systems and livelihoods, especially with reference to Indian caste inequality and activism, religious pluralism (Hindu and Christian) and common property resources; the anthropology of knowledge, institutions and international development.

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