Robert Foley (academic)
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Professor Robert Foley FBA |
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Foley in 2011
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| Born | Robert Andrew Foley 18 March 1953 Sussex, England |
| Nationality | British |
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Human evolution Prehistoric archaeology |
| Institutions |
University of Durham University of Cambridge |
| Alma mater | Peterhouse, Cambridge |
| Thesis | Human palaeoecology: an analysis of regional artefact density in the Amboseli Basin, Southern Kenya (1975) |
| Notable awards | Fellow of the British Academy (2007) |
Robert Andrew Foley, FBA (born 18 March 1953) is a British anthropologist, archaeologist, and academic, specialising in human evolution. From 1977 to 1985, he was a lecturer in anthropology at the University of Durham. He has been a fellow of King's College, Cambridge since 1987, and Leverhulme Professor of Human Evolution at the University of Cambridge since 2003.
Foley was born on 18 March 1953 in Sussex, England, to Nelson and Jean Foley. He was educated at Ardingly College and Peterhouse, Cambridge where he earned an MA and PhD in archaeology.
From 1977 to 1985, Foley was a Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Durham. He then returned to the University of Cambridge to take up a post in the Department of Biological Anthropology. From 1986 to 1998, he was a lecturer in Biological Anthropology. Since 1987, he has been a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. From 1998 to 2003, he was Reader in Evolutionary Anthropology. He co-founded the Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies in 2001 with Marta Mirazón Lahr, and has been its director since its inception. The Centre was designed to provide a home for the Duckworth Collection, and first class laboratories and facilities to support research in human evolution which integrated genetics, anthropology, and other fields. In 2003, he was appointed Leverhulme Professor of Human Evolution.
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