Chris Hann#
© Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung/ Foto: Thomas Meinicke
| Membership Number: | 4850 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | SOCIAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL THOUGHT |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.eth.mpg.de/hann |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1999 - 2021 Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
- 1994 - 1997 Dean of Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Kent
- 1992 - 1999 Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Kent at Canterbury
- 1984 - 1992 Lecturer Department of Social Anthropology University of Cambridge
- 1980 - 1992 Fellow at Corpus Christi College Cambridge (re-admitted 2018)
Fields of Scholarship
- Economic organization, property relations, religion, civil society, ethnicity and nationalism
- Socialism and postsocialism
- Eastern Christianity
- Karl Polanyi
- History of anthropology
- Hungary, Poland, Turkey, Xinjiang
- Economic anthropology
Honours and Awards
- 2020 Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales
- 2020 Foreign Member, Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2019 Royal Anthropological Institute, Huxley Memorial Medal
- 2015 Royal Anthropological Institute, Rivers Memorial Medal
- 2013 Advanced grant by the European Research Council, "Realising Eurasia: Civilisation and Moral Economy in the 21st Century". (REALEURASIA)
- 2012 - 2021 Spokesperson, International Max Planck Research School for the Anthropology, Archaeology and History of Eurasia
- 2013 - 2017 Honorary Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo (0.2)
- 2013 - 2004 Fellow, Institut d'études avancées, Nantes
- 2007 Fellow of the World Academy of Rusyn Culture
- 2005 Honorary Member, Hungarian Ethnological Society
- 1999 Honorary Professor, University of Kent at Canterbury
- 2000 Honorary Professor, University of Leipzig
- 2000 Honorary Professor, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
- 1999 Director, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle
- 1997 - 1999 Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
- 1991 Royal Anthropological Institute, Curl Prize Essay
- 1975 Lazard Scholarship, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
- 1971 - 1974 Welsh Foundation Scholarship, Jesus College, Oxford
