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Nicholas Jeremy Thomas FBA FAHA (born 1960) is an Australian-born anthropologist, Professor of Historical Anthropology, and Director, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge since 2006, and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge since 2007.
Nicholas Thomas has been Director of the Museum since 2006. He is author or editor of nearly fifty influential books and exhibition catalogues, which have ranged widely over art in Oceania, European travel, colonial histories, museology and the history of collections.
Nicholas Thomas first visited the Pacific in 1984 to research his doctoral thesis on culture and change in the Marquesas Islands, which led to work ranging over Indigenous histories, cross-cultural encounters, colonialism and contemporary art.
Director & Curator, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge. Nicholas Thomas, who has been Director of MAA since 2006, is an anthropologist and historian.
Professor Nicholas Thomas has been Director of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge since 2006. He was co-curator of the 2018 Oceania exhibition for the Royal Academy, and is the author of several influential books on material culture and colonial culture in the ...
Professor Nicholas Thomas. Nicholas Thomas visited the Pacific first in 1984 to undertake research in the Marquesas Islands. He has since travelled extensively in Oceania and worked on archives and collections across Europe and north America and in the region itself.
May 25, 2006 · The Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology has announced the appointment of Nicholas Thomas as its new Director from October 2006. Professor Thomas, currently Professor of Anthropology at Goldsmiths College, studied anthropology and history at the Australian National University, and visited Polynesia first in 1984 to research his PhD thesis on ...
