Professor Sherry B. Ortner FBA
Social and cultural theory; historical anthropology; gender and feminist theory; anthropology of late capitalism/neoliberalism; film, media, and the culture industries; political activism. Sherpas of Nepal and anthropology of the Himalayas
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2023
- Subjects
- Anthropology, Social Sciences
- Sections
- Anthropology and Geography
Current post
University of California Distinguished Professor Emerita of Anthropology
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Penny Harvey FBA
Anthropology of state effects, infrastructures, engineering, materiality and communicative practice drawing on long term ethnographic research in Peru and more recently in the UK. Current focus on nuclear waste disposal, emergent publics and the politics and temporalities of place-making
Professor Hastings Donnan FBA
The comparative study of borders that have experienced conflict, violence and war; related issues of trauma, memory and displacement; border crossings, transitions and transgressions; Islam; Ireland; Pakistan
Professor Neil Wrigley FBA
Economic geography with distinctive focus on retail & consumption: specifically retail globalisation & its host-economy impacts; & policy & practice engaged research on retail access.
