Caroline Humphrey
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Professor Dame Caroline Humphrey DBE FBA |
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|---|---|
| Born |
Caroline Waddington 1 September 1943 |
| Nationality | British |
| Title | Sigrid Rausing Professor of Collaborative Anthropology |
| Spouse(s) |
Nicholas Humphrey (m. 1967–77) Martin Rees (m. 1986) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | St George's School, Edinburgh |
| Alma mater |
Girton College, Cambridge University of Leeds |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Anthropology |
| Institutions |
University of Cambridge Girton College, Cambridge Scott Polar Research Institute King's College, Cambridge |
Dame Caroline Humphrey, Lady Rees of Ludlow, DBE, FBA (née Waddington; born 1 September 1943) is a British anthropologist and academic.
Humphrey's father was the biologist Conrad H. Waddington. Her mother was her father's second wife, Margaret Justin Blanco White (daughter of the writer Amber Reeves); she has a younger sister the mathematician Dusa McDuff, and an elder half-brother, the physicist C. Jake Waddington, by her father's first marriage.
Humphrey received her BA in Social Anthropology from Girton College, Cambridge. Her PhD, completed in 1973, was entitled Magical Drawings in the Religion of the Buryat. She received the Rivers Memorial Medal in 1999, and, in 2003, an Honorary Doctorate from the National University of Mongolia.
In 1967, Caroline Waddington married Nicholas Humphrey; they had no children and divorced in 1977. In 1986, she married Martin Rees, and became Lady Rees after her husband was appointed a Knight Bachelor in 1992.
Humphrey has conducted extensive research in Siberia, Nepal, India, Mongolia, China (Inner Mongolia), Uzbekistan and Ukraine. In 1966, she was one of the first anthropologists from a western country to be allowed to do fieldwork in the USSR. Her PhD (1973) focussed on Buryat religious iconography, and ensuing research topics have included Soviet collective farms, the farming economy in India and Tibet, Jainist culture in India, and environmental and cultural conservation in Inner Asia.
Between 1971 and 1978, she undertook research and official fellowships at Girton College, Cambridge and at the Scott Polar Research Institute. From 1978 to 1983 she lectured at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, before becoming a Director of Studies in Archaeology and Anthropology in 1984-89, and 1992-96. Humphrey has held the posts of University Reader in Asian Anthropology, University of Cambridge, 1995–98; University Professor of Asian Anthropology, 1998–2006; Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan, 2000; and Rausing Professorship of Collaborative Anthropology, 2006–10.
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