Professor Sarah Green FBA
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2025
- Honours
- FBA
- Sections
- Anthropology and Geography
Summary
Sarah Green is a Social Anthropologist with expertise in the anthropology of space, place, borders and location. Regionally, Green has focused particularly on the Mediterranean, the Balkans, Greece and the UK, which has also led to a particular interest in the meaning of Europe as a concept. Since 2016, Green has focused on changes in the encounters between the borders people create and nonhuman life, again focusing on European contexts.
Having trained at the University of Cambridge, followed by a research fellowship at Churchill College Cambridge, Professor Green went on to teach at the University of Manchester for seventeen years and then moved to the University of Helsinki in 2012, taking up the post of Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology there.
Research awards have included the Douglass award for best contribution to Europeanist Anthropology 2006 (for Notes from the Balkans, Princeton University Press, 2005), a European Research Council Advanced Grant for research in the Mediterranean region (Crosslocations; 2016-2022), and an honorary doctorate from the University of Eastern Finland for contributions to borders research.
Professor Green has represented anthropology in a number of international contexts, having been elected President of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), and President of American Anthropological Association’s Society for the Anthropology of Europe (SAE), as well as co-editor in chief for Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale. Green has also been elected to be a member of Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia (the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters) and Academia Europaea.