REPORT

Report of the General Board on the establishment of a Professorship of Historical Anthropology

The GENERAL BOARD beg leave to report to the University as follows:

1. In their Report, dated 30 November 2005 (Reporter, 2005-06, p. 224), on the Directorship of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, the General Board proposed a procedure that would enable them to recommend the establishment of a single-tenure Professorship, to be held concurrently with the Directorship, for a Director of the required academic standing. The recommendations of the Report were approved by Grace 2 of 25 January 2006.

2. An Advisory Committee consisting of Dr Gordon Johnson (in the Chair), Professor Michael Akam, Professor Robert Foley, Professor Christopher Gosden (University of Oxford), Professor Martin Jones, Professor Sharon MacDonald (University of Sheffield), Dr Michael O'Hanlon (University of Oxford), Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern, and Dr Deborah Swallow (Courtauld Institute of Art) was appointed by the General Board to consider applications. The Board have approved this Committee's recommendation that Professor N. J. Thomas, Professor of Anthropology, Goldsmiths College, University of London, should be appointed to the Directorship of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology with effect from 1 October 2006. On the advice of their Advisory Committee the Board have further agreed to recommend that a Professorship of Historical Anthropology should be established and assigned to the Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology, for Professor Thomas for his tenure as Director.

3. The Board have ascertained that Professor Thomas is willing to accept appointment to these offices. The Board accordingly propose that the Professorship be established, as specified above, for the person named.

4. The General Board recommend:

I. (a) That a Professorship of Historical Anthropology be established in the University for a single tenure with effect from 1 October 2006, placed in Schedule B of the Statutes, and assigned to the Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology,

(b) that Professor Nicholas Jeremy Thomas be appointed to the Professorship.

II. That regulations for the Professorship be approved, as set out in the Schedule to this Report.

SCHEDULE

Professor of Historical Anthropology.   2006.   Archaeology and Anthropology

1. The Professorship of Historical Anthropology shall be established for a single tenure with effect from 1 October 2006.

2. The Professor shall also hold the office of Director of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology during his tenure, and shall vacate the Professorship if he ceases to hold the latter office.