Henrietta Moore
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| Born | Henrietta Louise Moore 18 May 1957 |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
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| Institutions | University College London[1] |
| Thesis | Men, women, and the organisation of domestic space among the Marakwet of Kenya (1983) |
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Dame Henrietta Louise Moore, University College, London, part of the Bartlett, UCL's Faculty of the Built Environment.
Early life
Moore graduated from Durham University with an upper second in Archaeology and Anthropology in 1979.[2] She continued her studies at Newnham College, Cambridge, completing a PhD in 1983.[3]
Career
After leaving university Moore spent one year working for the
Social Anthropology in 1985.[3] Moore eventually rejoined Cambridge as a lecturer, where she became Director of Studies in Anthropology at Girton College and then a Fellow of Pembroke College in 1989.[3]
After a series of academic appointments in Social Anthropology at the
Cambridge University. In 2009 Moore was made a Professorial Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge.[3]
Moore has been critical of proposed restrictions in immigration, as proposed by Leave.EU in the run-up to the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum.[4] She is the Chair and Co-Founder of SHM Group, a consulting firm specialising in change management.[5]
Honours
She was appointed
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2016 New Year Honours for services to the social sciences.[6]
She was elected a Fellow of the
Herskovits Prize by the African Studies Association for their book Cutting Down Trees: Gender, Nutrition, and Agricultural Change in the Northern Province of Zambia, 1890-1990.[8]
In 2014 Moore received an honorary degree from Queen's University Belfast.[9]
Major works
- Moore, Henrietta L. (1986). Space, text and gender: an anthropological study of the Marakwet of Kenya. Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521303330.
- Moore, Henrietta L. (1988). Feminism and anthropology. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 9780745601137.
- Moore, Henrietta L.; et al. (1994). The Polity reader in gender studies. Cambridge, UK Malden, Massachusetts: Polity Press. ISBN 9780745612102.
- Moore, Henrietta L.; Vaughan, Megan A. (1994). Cutting down trees: gender, nutrition and change in the Northern Province of Zambia, 1890–1990. New York: Heinemann and London: James Currey. Herskovitz Prize)
- Moore, Henrietta L. (1994). A passion for difference: essays in anthropology and gender. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253209511.
- Moore, Henrietta L. (1996). Space, text and gender: an anthropological study of Marakwet of Kenya (2nd ed.). Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521303330.
- Moore, Henrietta L. and Todd Sanders (2001). Magical interpretations, material realities: modernity, witchcraft, and the occult in postcolonial Africa. London New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415241557.
- Moore, Henrietta L.; Mayo, Ed (2001). Building the mutual state: findings from the virtual think tank www[dot]themutualstate[dot]org. London: ISBN 9781899407491.
- Moore, Henrietta L. (2007). The subject of anthropology: gender, symbolism and psychoanalysis. Cambridge, UK Malden, Massachusetts: Polity Press. ISBN 9780745608099.
- Moore, Henrietta L.; ISBN 9781851685509.
- Moore, Henrietta L.; Sanders, Todd (2014) [2006]. Anthropology in theory: issues in epistemology (2nd ed.). Malden, Massachusetts: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9780470673355.
References
- ^ "Institute Director". 18 November 2016.
- ^ "XXV (ns) no. 1 including supplement". Durham University Gazette. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
- ^ Moore, Henrietta (19 June 2016). "Migration is a part of today's world. We can't just shut the borders, whatever the Leave campaign tells you". The Independent. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
- ^ "SHM Group". www.shm-group.net. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
- ^ "No. 61450". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 2015. p. N8.
- ^ "MOORE, Professor H L (born 18 May 1957)". British Academy Fellows Archive. Archived from the original on 6 June 2011.
- ^ "Melville J. Herskovits Prize". African Studies Association. 24 January 2017. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
- ^ "Social anthropologist recognised by Queen's University Belfast". University of Cambridge. 24 June 2014. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
External links
- Henrietta Moore official website
- "Professor Henrietta Moore – profile". Jesus College. University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on 7 June 2011.
- SHM Foundation website
- Barbican Centre Trust website
- European Research Council website
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