Congratulations to Tom Scott-Smith, who has been awarded the title of Professor in the University's latest Recognition of Distinction Exercise. He is now Professor of Political Anthropology.
Tom 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. He is current Director of the Refugee Studies Centre.