Professor Stephanie Jamison FBA
Indo-Iranian and Indo-European comparative linguistics, poetics, mythology, religion, and customary law; concentrating especially on Vedic Sanskrit philology and the development of early Sanskrit and Middle-Indo-Aryan
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2019
- Subjects
- Modern languages, Religion
- Sections
- Theology and Religious Studies
Current post
University of California, Los Angeles Distinguished Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures and of Indo-European Studies
2017 -
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Mark Williams FBA
Psychological models and treatment of recurrent depression; experimental cognitive psychology of the processes that increase risk of suicidality; prevention of suicidal depression through mindfulness-based treatments
Professor Sophie Gilliat-Ray FBA
Islam and Muslim communities in Britain; religious leadership, chaplaincy in public institutions, ethnographic research methodology.
Professor Douglas Davies FBA
The anthropology and sociology of ritual, symbolism, belief, and emotions. Mormonism; mortality, and funerary practices of burial and cremation. The theology of death. The relationship between anthropology and theology
