Manchester Prof elected British Academy Fellow

A Professor of Anthropology at The University of Manchester has been elected a Fellow of the prestigious British Academy. John Gledhill will join nearly 900 scholars who have attained distinction in their field of research and been honoured by the Academy, which represents the humanities and social sciences by providing expertise and contributing to public policy. He is a specialist on Latin America, with particular expertise in political, economic and historical anthropology. Based at the School of Social Sciences, Professor Gledhill joined The University of Manchester in September 1996. He served as Head of Anthropology from 1997 to 2001, before spending two years doing new research in Mexico on an indigenous community's struggle for survival and self-determination He was Chair of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth from April 2005 to April 2009, and became a Vice-President of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences in July 2009. He is responsible for organizing the Union's seventeenth World Congress, to be hosted by the University of Manchester in 2013. In December 2009 the Leverhulme Trust awarded Professor Gledhill a three year Major Research Fellowship, starting in October 2010.