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For full 'About' information including publications please link to: www.ruthhfinnegan.com

 

Academic Positions

1963-64 Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.

1965-69 Lecturer and (1967) Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.

1969-72 Lecturer in Sociology, Open University.

1972-75, 1978-99 Senior Lecturer, Reader (1982), Professor (1988) in Comparative Social Institutions,Open University.

1975-78 Reader in Sociology, and (1976) Head of Sociology Discipline, University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji.

1989    Visiting Professor in Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin. 

1999- current  Visiting Research Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, Open University.

2002- Emeritus Professor, Open University.

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Other Appointments

1978-1986  Member, Social Science Research Council (later Economic and Social Research Council) Standing

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Committees

Social Anthropology 1978-82 

Social Affairs 1982-6 

Joint Vice-Chairman Social Affairs 1985-6

1979-1993 Joint general editor (with Peter Burke) of monograph series 'Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture' 

1987-9 Hon. Editor, Man (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute) 

1992   Member, Anthropology panel, UK Government (HEFCE) Research Assessment Exercise 

1994-97 Series editor, ‘Studying family and community history: 19th and 20th centuries’, 4 volumes, Cambridge University Press in association with the Open University.

1996-2001 Joint editor of CD-ROM series Project reports in family and community history, The Open University.

1998-2002 Joint founding editor of interdisciplinary journal Family & Community History . 

1998-2011 Trustee, Mass-Observation Archive (Royal Anthropological Institute appointee) 

1999-2007 Member (Crown appointee), Governing Body, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; 2003-6 Vice-Chair

2012- current Founder and Senior Editor, Callender Press.

2014- Member International Research Council on Humanities and Social Sciences Studies on Africa (IRCHSSA).

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