Caroline Humphrey#
| Membership Number: | 2440 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | SOCIAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL THOUGHT |
| Elected: | 2007 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010 Voluntary Director of Research
- 2006 - 2010 Rausing Professorship of Collaborative Anthropology
- 1998 - 2006 University Professor of Asian Anthropology
- 1995 - 1998 University Reader in Asian Anthropology, University of Cambridge
- 1984 - 1989; 1992-1996 Director of Studies in Arch. & Anth.
- 1978 Lecturer, Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University 1983-95 Fellow of King's College, Cambridge
- 1978 - 1983 University Assistant Lecturer, Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University
- 1973 - 1978 Senior Assistant in Research, Cambridge University (Scott Polar Research Institute)
Fields of Scholarship
- Politics of memory
- Inequality and exclusion
- Social Anthropology
Honours and Awards
- 1990 J. I. Staley Prize in Anthropology (School of American Research), awarded for my book Karl Marx Collective
- 1995 Honorary Professorship, Inner Mongolia Normal University, Hohhot, P. R. China
- 2002 The Heldt Prize (American Assoc. for Women in Slavic Studies)
- 2003 Honorary Doctorate, National University of Mongolia.
- 2004 Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques, France
- 2007 Member, Academia Europa
- 2008 Henry Allen Poe Prize for the Humanities, American Philosophical Society
