Professor Robert Thomson FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Emeritus Fellow
- Year elected
- 1995
- Year of birth
- 1934
- Year of death
- 2018
- Sections
- Africa, Asia and the Middle East
Past appointments
University of Oxford Calouste Gulbenkian Professor of Armenian Studies
1992 - 2001
Harvard University Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies
1969 - 1992
Publications
Nonnus of Nisibis: Commentary on the Gospel of Saint John
Robert W. Thomson - Published in 2014 by SBL Press
Rewriting Caucasian history: the medieval Armenian adaptation of the Georgian chronicles
Robert W. Thomson - Published in 1996 by Clarendon Press
Other Fellows of the British Academy
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.
Professor John Healey FBA
Aramaic inscriptions of the Roman-period Near East (especially Nabataen & Syriac); associated historical, religious & legal studies; early development of the Arabic script; Ugaritic, Hebrew & Syriac philology & literature
Professor Rana Mitter FBA
The history and politics of modern China; history of twentieth-century China, in particular the Republican period (1912-1949) and Cold War; contemporary Chinese nationalism and Sino-Japanese relations
