Public Anthropology Award
Awarded by the RAI Council to an academic anthropologist who has made a contribution to the public sphere. Prior Recipients
RAI President’s Lifetime Achievement Award
The RAI President’s Lifetime Achievement Award is given to a person who, in the opinion of the judges, has made a fundamental, sustained and outstanding contribution to the discipline of […]
Photography Studies Award
Awarded by the RAI Council to a person who in their opinion has made a distinguished contribution to the study of anthropology and photography. Prior Recipients
Honorary Fellows
Honorary Fellows Honorary Fellows, elected by the RAI Council, are persons eminent in anthropology not normally resident in the United Kingdom.
Marsh Award for Anthropology in the World
Annual – Deadline 31 March – Prize £1000
Mary Douglas Memorial Lecture Fund
Oxford University’s School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography and UCL Anthropology have established a fund to support an annual lecture in memory of Dame Mary Douglas (1921-2007). Mary was trained […]
The Patron’s Medal
The Patron’s Medal is awarded from time to time for distinguished services to Anthropology and to the Institute.
Lucy Mair Medal & Marsh Prize for Applied Anthropology
The Lucy Mair Medal & Marsh Prize for Applied Anthropology is awarded annually by the Royal Anthropological Institute. First awarded in 1998, the Medal is intended to honour excellence in […]
The Curl Lectureship
The Curl Lectureship is awarded biennially by the Council of the Royal Anthropological Institute. The lecture is delivered in alternation with the Henry Myers Lecture.
The Henry Myers Lecturship
The Henry Myers Lecturship on the Role of Religion in Society was founded by Henry Myers, a Fellow of the Institute, in 1945 “to further the study of man’s mental […]
