Caroline Humphrey - Curriculum vitae#
EDUCATION
- Girton College, Cambridge, 1962-5
- B.A. Social Anthropology 1965
- M.A 1971 Leeds University, 1970. Diploma in Mongolian Studies (with distinction)
- 1971. M.A. in Mongolian Studies University of Cambridge
- 1973. Ph.D. in Social Anthropology. Title of dissertation, "Magical Drawings in the Religion of the Buryat"
ACADEMIC CAREER
- Research Fellow, Girton College, Cambridge, 1971-4
- Official Fellow, Girton College, 1974-5
- Senior Assistant in Research, Cambridge University (Scott Polar Research Institute), 1973-8
- University Assistant Lecturer, Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University, 1978-83
- Lecturer, Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University 1983-95 Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, 1978- ;
- Director of Studies in Arch. & Anth. 1984-9; 1992-6
- University Reader in Asian Anthropology, University of Cambridge, 1995-8 University Professor of Asian Anthropology, 1998-2006
- Rausing Professorship of Collaborative Anthropology, 2006–2010
- Voluntary Director of Research, 2010-
AWARDS
- 1966 Anthony Wilkin Studentship (Cambridge)
- 1990 J. I. Staley Prize in Anthropology (School of American Research), awarded for my book Karl Marx Collective
- 1990-1992 British Academy Research Readership
- 1993 Presentation Medal, University of Helsinki
- 1995 Honorary Professorship, Inner Mongolia Normal University, Hohhot, P. R. China.
- 1999 The Rivers Memorial Medal, Royal Anthropological Institute, London
- 2002 Honorary Professorship, Inner Mongolia University, Huhhot, P.R.China.
- 2002 The Heldt Prize (American Assoc. for Women in Slavic Studies)
- 2003 Diploma of Honour, International Association of Mongolian Studies, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
- 2003 Honorary Doctorate, National University of Mongolia.
- 2004 Member, American Philosophical Society
- 2004 Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques, France
- 2007 Member, Academia Europa
- 2008 Henry Allen Poe Prize for the Humanities, American Philosophical Society
ACTIVITIES
- Assessor, British Council Postgraduate Studentships for Mongolia (1980-9)
- Editorial Boards of journals: History and Anthropology, 1988-; Man, 1989-92; Journal of Human Ecology (Delhi) 1989-; Anthropology Today (London) 1985-91; Central Asian Survey (London) 1992- ; Vestnik Evrazii (Moscow), 1995-2010 ; Inner Asia (Cambridge), 1996- ; Focaal (Netherlands) 2000-; Anthropological Theory 2001-; Material Culture 2001- ; Mongolian Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ulaanbaatar 2003-; Humanities Research (Australia) 2005-9 -
- Editorial board of academic series: O.U. P., Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, 1990-2001; Brill (Leiden) Asia Mongograph Series, 2001-
- Member of research assessment panel, (Global Security), SSRC, New York 1991 -
- Consultant Common Security Forum, (Cambridge, Harvard, New Delhi, Moscow), 1992-
- Syndic of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1992-
- Trustee of the East Asian History of Science Trust, Needham Research Institute, Cambridge, 1993-8 -
- Advisory Committee, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge,
- 1993-8 - Assessor for anthropology, HEFCE teaching assessment, 1994-5 -
- British Academy Overseas Policy Committee, 1999-2002; British Academy BASIS Cttee: 2002- -
- Eurasian Regional Advisory Panel, SSRC, New York, 2000- -
- International advisory committees for Institutions: Humanities Research (Australia), 1997-10; -
- Scientific Advisory Committee, Max-Planck Institute for Anthropology, (Halle, Germany) 2001-6 -
- Management Committee SSRC, New York 2008-