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Tom Scott-Smith awarded title of Professor
We are delighted to announce that Tom Scott-Smith has been awarded the title of Professor in the University’s annual Recognition of Distinction exercise. He is now Professor of Political Anthropology.
Tom is the Director of the Refugee Studies Centre. He specializes in the ethnographic and historical study of humanitarian relief. He is a BBC New Generation Thinker, and his book on the history of humanitarian nutrition, On an Empty Stomach: Two Hundred Years of Hunger Relief (published by Cornell University Press), won the Association for the Study of Food and Society book award in 2020. His latest book, Fragments of Home: Refugee Housing and the Politics of Shelter, was published by Stanford University Press in 2024.