Caroline Humphrey, born 1943
ANTHROPOLOGIST
Dame Caroline Humphrey DBE FBA is a leading anthropologist. She is Emeritus Sigrid Rausing Professor of Anthropology at Cambridge University. She also chairs the Management Committee of the Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit (IASU). She has conducted research in Siberia, Nepal, India, Mongolia, China (Inner Mongolia), Uzbekistan and Ukraine. In 1966, she was one of the first anthropologists from a western country to be allowed to do fieldwork in the USSR. A fellow of King’s College Cambridge, she is married to Lord Rees, the Astronomer Royal and former Master of Trinity College Cambridge.
Source: A re-formatted transcript of an interview by Prof. Alan Macfarlane, reproduced with the permission of Caroline Humphrey and Prof. Macfarlane in 2020.