Huxley Medal: Professor Veena Das (John Hopkins)
Professor Daz is a preeminent anthropologist of India and one of the world’s leading anthropologists. Her wide-ranging theoretical concerns have been concentrated at the intersections of anthropology with philosophy, medicine, economics and politics.
Rivers Medal: Professor Chris Fowler (Newcastle)
Professor Fowler specialises in Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Britain. He has recently produced a series of highly influential and impactful papers which explore the implications of ancient DNA for the understanding of kinship in prehistory.
Lucy Mair Medal: Professor David Napier (Professor of Medical Anthropology, UCL)
Currently Global Academic Lead on ‘Cities Changing Diabetes’, Professor Napier’s research has paved the way for a more culturally sensitive approach to understanding health and illness, one that recognizes the diversity of medical traditions and the importance of local knowledge in shaping health outcomes.
Curl lecturer: Dr Ana Collar (Southampton)
Dr Collar is an archaeologist working on the epigraphy and material culture of religious practice in the Roman world; sacred landscapes and the natural world; migration; emotion and experience; and interconnectivity, social networks and network analysis.
Marsh Prize: Dr Simon Roberts
Having obtained an MA and PhD from Edinburgh, Dr Roberts has become a successful businessman, a pioneer of the use of anthropology in the private sector and consultancy, and a tireless advocate for the usefulness of anthropology in the world.
Public Anthropology: Professor Alan Macfarlane (Cambridge)
Professor Macfarlane has been throughout his career devoted to the public dissemination of anthropological knowledge through his pioneering use of the internet and Youtube. In recent years, this has grown so much that he now has in China via social media regularly several million followers from all generations making him one of the most prominent of all anthropologists in the public sphere.
Life-time achievement award: Professor Roy Ellen (Kent)
Professor Ellen has throughout his long career been a tireless supporter of the discipline, a key figure in the Department of Anthropology at Kent, a pioneer Ethnobotanist, an award-winning author, a consistent contributor to countless committees, and warm teacher, advisor, friend and colleague to all.
Honorary Fellows:
Professor Subhadra Channa (India: Delhi)
Professor Channa is retired professor of anthropology, and active in many international activities. A distinguished scholar, she has written twelve books and more than eighty papers, and was the leader of the visiting delegation for the recent Anthropology in India event.
Professor Badri Narayan Tiwari (India: Mumbai)
Prof. Badri Narayan Tiwari is Vice Chancellor of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, and a historian and cultural anthropologist who specialises in ethnic and marginalised communities. He is also a distinguished poet, prominent public intellectual, and devoted to showing how anthropology may be used to help the world’s poorest communities.