Henrietta L. Moore (born 18 May 1957[1]) 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.[1]
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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 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,[1] 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.
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| Preceded by Marilyn Strathern |
William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology Cambridge University 2009 - |
Succeeded by incumbent |