Professor Paulo de Moraes Farias FBA
West African history: oral traditions, chronicles, and medieval Arabic inscriptions; the interaction of Islamic and other cultural heritages in the region
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2017
- Year of death
- 2026
- Sections
- Africa, Asia and the Middle East
Last post
Honorary Professor, Department of African Studies and Anthropology, University of Birmingham
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Samuel Lieu FBA
History of religions, especially of Manichaeism and Christianity, in Central Asia and China; history of Late Roman and Early Byzantine Near East; history of the Silk Road
Professor Barak Kushner FBA
Barak Kushner was educated at Brandeis University and Princeton University in the United States. He is currently Professor of East Asian history at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Corpus Christi College.
