Professor Henrietta L. Moore
William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology; Professorial Fellow, Jesus College
email: wyse1 [at] socanth.cam.ac.uk
Research interests: sexuality, gender, social transformation, ethics, new forms of self-fashioning, cosmopolitanism, culture and globalisation; Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Zambia).
Henrietta L. Moore is the William Wyse Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. Previously she was LSE Deputy Director for research and external relations and served as the Director of the Gender Institute at the LSE from 1994-1999. She has held numerous Visiting Appointments in the United States, Germany, Norway, South Africa, among other places.
Professor Moore has a continuing long term research engagement with Africa. Her research programme has focused on gender, livelihood strategies, social transformation and symbolic systems. She is one of the leading theorist of gender in Social Anthropology, and her work has developed a distinctive approach to the analysis of the interrelations of material and symbolic gender systems, embodiment and performance, and identity and sexuality. She has written and lectured on Social Theory, Epistemology, Feminist Theory, Anthropology, Gender, Space, Development and Social Enterprise.
Professor Moore is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Academician of the Learned Societies for the Social Sciences.
Henrietta L. Moore is also the Chair and co-founder of SHM Productions Ltd, a strategy and insight consultancy based in central London.
Website: www.henriettalmoore.com.
Prof Henrietta Moore to chair public discussion
Professor Henrietta Moore, William Wyse chair of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge will chair a public discussion on 1 May at LSE on alternatives to austerity cuts. The event is free and open to all. More information can be found here.
April 30th, 2012
Henrietta Moore at HowTheLightGetsIn
HowTheLightGetsIn: the philosophy and music festival at Hay 26th May – 5th June Event 1 Friday 27 May 2011 8:00pm Venue: Talk Tent My Avatar, Myself Henrietta Moore When we extend ourselves into the virtual where do we, ourselves, end? With endless new capacities to animate our intentions beyond the body, leading anthropologist Henrietta [...]
April 26th, 2011
Henrietta Moore (eds) Global Civil Society 2012 (Ten Years of Critical Reflection)
Prof Henrietta L. Moore launches ‘Global Civil Society and the Internet 2012: Time to Update Our Perspective’ A new edited volume by Henrietta L Moore, Mary Kaldor and Sabine Selchow marks the tenth anniversary of the Civil Society Yearbook. ‘Global Civil Society 2012: Ten Years of Critical Reflection’ looks back at over a decade of [...]
May 3rd, 2012
Revisiting Marakwet
In April 2002, the remote district of Marakwet in the Rift Valley Province of northern Kenya and its adherence to the practice of female circumcision suddenly broke on to the world stage with dramatic consequences. A local NGO funded by donations from the USA brought court cases against the parents of 16 Marakwet girls to [...]
December 14th, 2010
Modern Lives
The Modern Lives study is premised on the importance of local, personal perspectives in understanding the meaning and nature of sexuality, intimacy and desire in Africa and their entanglements with the cultural processes we usually term as globalisation. The research forms an innovative re-conceptualisation of the relationship between sexuality, culture and social change in anthropology [...]
December 14th, 2010
The Social Life of Achievement
Convened by: Dr Nick Long & Prof Henrietta Moore Funders: The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Background As ever more countries around the word seek to increase their competitiveness in a neoliberal ‘knowledge economy’, notions of economic, academic, and personal ‘achievement’ are becoming increasingly important in public policy and social life. Moreover, policy interventions often [...]
September 10th, 2010
Intimate Aspirations
THE INTIMACY NETWORK The Intimacy Network based at Social Anthropology in Cambridge, consists of a group of social anthropologists across the UK and Europe whose current work concerns intimate relations in a variety of settings and who are collaborating together through the network. What unites us all is that we are committed to the ethnographic [...]
March 15th, 2012
The Social Life of Achievement
Convened by: Dr Nick Long & Prof Henrietta Moore Funders: The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Background As ever more countries around the word seek to increase their competitiveness in a neoliberal ‘knowledge economy’, notions of economic, academic, and personal ‘achievement’ are becoming increasingly important in public policy and social life. Moreover, policy interventions often [...]
September 10th, 2010
Subjectivity in Europe
This network brings together social anthropologists, philosophers, psychoanalysts and sociologists concerned with he changing nature of subjectivity in Europe today. Participants come from the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, the London School of Economics, Universiteit Utrecht, and the University of Ljubljana.
September 10th, 2010
William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology; Professorial Fellow, Jesus College
