Marilyn Strathern#
Membership Number: | 744 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | SOCIAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL THOUGHT |
Elected: | 1990 |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2008 Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University
- 1998 - 2009 Mistress of Girton College
- William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology
- 1985 Professor of Social Anthropology at Manchester University
- 1984 - 1985 Lecturer at Trinity College
- 1976 - 1983 Lecturer at Girton College
- 1970 - 1976 Researcher for the New Guinea Research Unit of Australian University followed
Fields of Scholarship
- Social anthropology
- Melanesian and British ethnography
Honours and Awards
- 1976 Rivers Memorial Medal, Royal Anthropologist Inst.
- 1987 Fellow of British Academy
- 1990 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 1994 Honorary Degree Sc. Copenhagen
- 1996 Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts & Sciences
- 2001 Dame Commander of the British Empire for services to Social Anthropology
- 2003 Viking Fund Medal, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
- 2004 Huxley Medal
- 2004 Honorary Degree Lit, Oxford
- 2005 30th Anniversary Independence Medal, Papua New Guinea
- 2006 Honorary Degree Pol., Helsinki
- 2006 Honorary Degree, Panteion University, Athens
- 2007 Honorary Degree Sc., Durham
- 2009 Honorary Degree Philosophy, University Papua New Guinea
- 2009 Honorary Degree Social Sciences, Belfast
- 2018 Balzan Prize