Nicholas Thomas (anthropologist)

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Nicholas Jeremy Thomas

FAHA (born 1960) is an Australian-born anthropologist, Professor of Historical Anthropology, and Director, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge since 2006, and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
since 2007.

Career

Thomas was born in Australia in 1960.[1]

In 1984 he travelled to the

PhD thesis on the Marquesas Islands. He has worked in Fiji and New Zealand, various archives and museums in Europe, North America, and in the Pacific region.[2]

He was elected as a Corresponding Fellow of the

Centre for Cross-Cultural Research (CCR) at the Australian National University.[2]

Thomas was elected to the British Academy in 2005,[1] and became a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 2007.[1]

He participated in a workshop at the

Captain Cook's expedition. The workshop concluded that it was not that specific shield, and Thomas' paper on it was published whose paper was included in Australian Historical Studies along with another report from the workshop.[3]

Current positions

As of 2020[update] he is Professor of Historical Anthropology and Director at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the

Musée du Quai Branly in Paris as well as the International Advisory Board of the Humboldt Forum in Berlin.[4]

Awards and honours

He was awarded the 2010 Wolfson History Prize for his book Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire.[1][4]

Selected publications

  • Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire (2010)
    ISBN 978-030-018056-5
  • Rauru: Tene Waitere, Maori Carving, Colonial History (2008), with Mark Adams
  • Hiapo: Past and present in Niuean barkcloth (2005), with John Pule,
    ISBN 1-877372-00-5
  • Discoveries: the Voyages of Captain James Cook (2003)
  • Possessions: Indigenous Art/Colonial Culture (1999)
  • Oceanic Art (World of Art) (1995),
    ISBN 978-0-500-20281-4
  • Entangled Objects (1991)

References

  1. ^
    doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U245032
    . Retrieved 5 March 2013 – via Oxford University Press.
  2. ^ a b "Fellows". Australian Academy of the Humanities. 28 January 2020. Retrieved 14 September 2020.
  3. S2CID 149069484
    – via ResearchGate.
  4. ^ a b "Professor Nicholas Thomas: Director & Curator". The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge. Retrieved 14 September 2020.
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