RAI Award and Medal Winners for 2025
The Royal Anthropological Institute wishes to congratulate all our winners that were awarded at our AGM. Huxley Memorial Medal and Lecture Professor Rob Foley Rivers Memorial Medal Professor Nayanika Mookherjee […]
Professor Robert Foley, FBA
Winner of the 2025Huxley Memorial Medal & Lecture Emeritus Leverhulme Professor of Human Evolution and a Fellow of the Turing institute Robert is an evolutionary and biological anthropologist, with a […]
Benno Glauser
Winner of the 2025 Awarding ofHonorary Fellowship of The RAI Benno Glauser has spent more than fifty years devoted to protecting and helping the indigenous peoples of Latin America, particularly […]
Professor Laurajane Smith
Winner of the 2025RAI Public Anthropology Award Professor of Heritage and Museum Studies, Australian National University Laurajane Smith is Professor of Heritage and Museum Studies at ANU, and a fellow […]
Aparecida Vilaça
Winner of the 2025 Henry Myers Lecture Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Vilaça has carried out ethnographic research among the Wari’ people in Southwestern Amazonia for over three […]
Professor Richard Bradley
Winner of the 2025 President’s Lifetime Achievement Award Professor Emeritus, University of Reading Richard John Bradley is a British archaeologist and academic. He specialises in the study of European prehistory, […]
Professor Nayanika Mookherjee
Winner of The 2025 Rivers Memorial Medal Professor of Political Anthropology, Durham University Ethnographic exploration of public memories of violent pasts and aesthetic practices of reparative futures – the state, violence, memory, […]
Professor Caroline Sturdy-Colls
Winner of The 2025 Lucy Mair Medal and Marsh Prize for Applied Anthropology Professor of Holocaust Archaeology and Genocide Investigation, University of Huddersfield Caroline Sturdy Colls is Professor of Holocaust […]
Otto Pipatti
Dr Otto Pipatti is a researcher in sociology and social anthropology at the University of Helsinki, with both historical and contemporary interests in evolutionary and biosocial approaches to human behaviour. […]
Jonathan Benthall
Author of: “Islamic Charities and Islamic Humanism in Troubled Times” (Manchester University Press, 2016). Principal field of research interest:The comparative study of humanitarian and charitable traditions, with special reference to […]