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Read more at: Audrey Richards Prize Winner

Audrey Richards Prize Winner

We are pleased to announce this year’s winner of the Audrey Richards Prize, for the best performance in the Part I examination in Social Anthropology, is Thomas Bevan of Corpus Christi College.

Read more at: Sue Benson Prize for Best Part IIB Dissertation

Sue Benson Prize for Best Part IIB Dissertation

Winner: Camille Lardy (Sidney Sussex College) Every year, the division awards a prize of £200 to the most outstanding IIB dissertation. The prize is named in memory of Dr Sue Benson (1955-2005), an anthropologist who lectured, supervised and directed studies in Cambridge for 26 years and was an inspiration both personally...

Read more at: Senior Academic Promotions

Senior Academic Promotions

We are delighted that three members of the Division have been successful in the latest University Senior Promotions exercise. Our congratulations to: James Laidlaw and Susan Bayly who have received Professorships and to Anita Herle who has received a Readership. For full details see the Cambridge University Reporter

Read more at: Wyse Prize for Undergraduate Dissertation Research

Wyse Prize for Undergraduate Dissertation Research

Winner: Lily Rice (Girton College)  The Division is pleased to announce the winner of the 2015 Wyse Undergraduate Prize for Dissertation Research. The prize goes to Lily Rice of Girton College for a project proposal entitled ‘Exploring the construction of humanism in Uganda’. Taking ‘humanism’ as the subject of...