Henrietta Moore
Encyclopedia
Henrietta L. Moore is a British social anthropologist
. She is the William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology
at the University of Cambridge
. Previously Moore was a Governor of the LSE; LSE Deputy Director for research and external relations 2002-2005, and served as the Director of the Gender Institute at the LSE from 1994-1999.
She has a continuing long term research engagement with Africa, where her work has focused on gender, livelihood strategies, social transformation and development. She is actively involved in the application of social science insights to business, the arts and public policy, and is Chair and Co-founder of SHM Productions Ltd, a research and innovation consultancy in London which works both in the public and private sectors.
Moore has held numerous Visiting Appointments in the United States, Germany, Norway, and South Africa, among other places. She is currently a Leverhulme Trust
Major Research Fellow and a Fellow of the Centre for Globalisation and Policy Research, School of Public Affairs, UCLA.
She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy
in 2007, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
, an Academician of the Learned Societies for the Social Sciences
, and a member of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth, Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute
and a Member of the American Association of Anthropologists.
On taking up her professorship at Cambridge University Moore became a fellow
of Jesus College, Cambridge
.
Social anthropology
Social Anthropology is one of the four or five branches of anthropology that studies how contemporary human beings behave in social groups. Practitioners of social anthropology investigate, often through long-term, intensive field studies , the social organization of a particular person: customs,...
. She is the William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology
William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology
The William Wyse Professorship of Social Anthropology is a professorship in social anthropology at the University of Cambridge. It was founded on 18 June 1932 and endowed partly with the support of Trinity College from money bequeathed to them by William Wyse, formerly Fellow and Honorary Fellow of...
at the University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
. Previously Moore was a Governor of the LSE; LSE Deputy Director for research and external relations 2002-2005, and served as the Director of the Gender Institute at the LSE from 1994-1999.
Career
Henrietta L. Moore is a social theorist and feminist anthropologist. Her work has developed a distinctive approach to the comparative analysis of gender and sexuality, and to the intersections between culture and globalisation.She has a continuing long term research engagement with Africa, where her work has focused on gender, livelihood strategies, social transformation and development. She is actively involved in the application of social science insights to business, the arts and public policy, and is Chair and Co-founder of SHM Productions Ltd, a research and innovation consultancy in London which works both in the public and private sectors.
Moore has held numerous Visiting Appointments in the United States, Germany, Norway, and South Africa, among other places. She is currently a Leverhulme Trust
Leverhulme Trust
The Leverhulme Trust was established in 1925 under the will of the First Viscount Leverhulme, William Hesketh Lever, with the instruction that its resources should be used to support "scholarships for the purposes of research and education."...
Major Research Fellow and a Fellow of the Centre for Globalisation and Policy Research, School of Public Affairs, UCLA.
She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy
British Academy
The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national body for the humanities and the social sciences. Its purpose is to inspire, recognise and support excellence in the humanities and social sciences, throughout the UK and internationally, and to champion their role and value.It receives an annual...
in 2007, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
Royal Society of Arts
The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce is a British multi-disciplinary institution, based in London. The name Royal Society of Arts is frequently used for brevity...
, an Academician of the Learned Societies for the Social Sciences
Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences
The Academy of Social Sciences is a research body in the UK. , the Academy was composed of over 450 Academicians and 32 Learned Societies. Academicians are distinguished scholars and practitioners from academia and the public and private sectors...
, and a member of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth, Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland is the world's longest established anthropological organization, with a global membership. Since 1843, it has been at the forefront of new developments in anthropology and new means of communicating them to a broad audience...
and a Member of the American Association of Anthropologists.
On taking up her professorship at Cambridge University Moore became a fellow
Fellow
A fellow in the broadest sense is someone who is an equal or a comrade. The term fellow is also used to describe a person, particularly by those in the upper social classes. It is most often used in an academic context: a fellow is often part of an elite group of learned people who are awarded...
of Jesus College, Cambridge
Jesus College, Cambridge
Jesus College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.The College was founded in 1496 on the site of a Benedictine nunnery by John Alcock, then Bishop of Ely...
.
Major works
- Space, Text and Gender: An Anthropological Study of the Marakwet of Kenya. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1986
- Feminism and Anthropology. Cambridge Polity Press 1988
- Cutting Down Trees: Gender, Nutrition and Change in the Northern Province of Zambia, 1890-1990 (with M.A. Vaughan ). New York: Heinemann and London: James Currey 1994. (Winner of the 1995 Herskovitz PrizeHerskovitz PrizeThe Herskovits Prize is an annual award given by the African Studies Association to the best scholarly work on Africa published in English in the previous year and distributed in the United States....
) - A Passion for Difference: Essays in Anthropology and Gender. Cambridge: Polity Press 1994
- Space, Text and Gender: An Anthropological Study of Marakwet of Kenya. 2nd edition with new introduction and conclusion. New York, Guilford Publishing Inc. 1996
- The Mutual State and How to Build It (with Ed Mayo). London: New Economics Foundation 2001
- The Subject of Anthropology: Gender, Symbolism and Psychoanalysis. Cambridge: Polity Press 2007