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 Clare Harris FBA
Art, photography, museums and material culture of Tibet, the Tibetan diaspora and India. Anthropological, art historical and curatorial research on the representation of Tibet internationally in the past and present
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
Professor Heonik Kwon FBA
The postcolonial Cold War; civil war memories in Vietnam and in Korea; death rituals and the politics of kinship; early fieldwork in indigenous Siberia; the heritage of internationalism in anthropology
