# Henrietta Moore

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Dame Henrietta Louise Moore, DBE, FBA, FAcSS (born 18 May 1957) is a British social anthropologist. She is the director of the UCL Institute for Global Prosperity at University College, London, part of the Bartlett, UCL's Faculty of the Built Environment.

## Early life

Moore graduated from Durham University with an upper second in Archaeology and Anthropology in 1979. She continued her studies at Newnham College, Cambridge, completing a PhD in 1983.

## Career

After leaving university Moore spent one year working for the United Nations in Burkina Faso as a Field Director. She then became a Curatorial Assistant at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge before joining the University of Kent as a Lecturer in Social Anthropology in 1985. Moore eventually rejoined Cambridge as a lecturer, where she became Director of Studies in Anthropology at Girton College and then a Fellow of Pembroke College in 1989.
After a series of academic appointments in Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics Moore took up the William Wyse Chair of Social Anthropology at Cambridge University. In 2009 Moore was made a Professorial Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge.
Moore has been critical of proposed restrictions in immigration, as proposed by Leave.EU in the run-up to the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum. She is the Chair and Co-Founder of SHM Group, a consulting firm specialising in change management.

## Honours

She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2016 New Year Honours for services to the social sciences.
She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2007. In 1995, Moore and Megan Vaughan were awarded the Herskovits Prize by the African Studies Association for their book Cutting Down Trees: Gender, Nutrition, and Agricultural Change in the Northern Province of Zambia, 1890-1990.
In 2014 Moore received an honorary degree from Queen's University Belfast.

## Major works

* Moore, Henrietta L. (1986). Space, text and gender: an anthropological study of the Marakwet of Kenya. Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521303330.
* Moore, Henrietta L. (1988). Feminism and anthropology. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 9780745601137.
* Moore, Henrietta L.; et al. (1994). The Polity reader in gender studies. Cambridge, UK Malden, Massachusetts: Polity Press. ISBN 9780745612102.
* Moore, Henrietta L.; Vaughan, Megan A. (1994). Cutting down trees: gender, nutrition and change in the Northern Province of Zambia, 1890–1990. New York: Heinemann and London: James Currey. ISBN 9780852556122. (Winner of the 1995 Herskovitz Prize)
* Moore, Henrietta L. (1994). A passion for difference: essays in anthropology and gender. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253209511.
* Moore, Henrietta L. (1996). Space, text and gender: an anthropological study of Marakwet of Kenya (2nd ed.). Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521303330.
* Moore, Henrietta L. and Todd Sanders (2001). Magical interpretations, material realities: modernity, witchcraft, and the occult in postcolonial Africa. London New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415241557.
* Moore, Henrietta L.; Mayo, Ed (2001). Building the mutual state: findings from the virtual think tank www[dot]themutualstate[dot]org. London: New Economics Foundation and Mutuo. ISBN 9781899407491.
* Moore, Henrietta L. (2007). The subject of anthropology: gender, symbolism and psychoanalysis. Cambridge, UK Malden, Massachusetts: Polity Press. ISBN 9780745608099.
* Moore, Henrietta L.; Held, David (2008). Cultural politics in a global age: uncertainty, solidarity, and innovation. Oxford: One World Publications. ISBN 9781851685509.
* Moore, Henrietta L.; Sanders, Todd (2014) [2006]. Anthropology in theory: issues in epistemology (2nd ed.). Malden, Massachusetts: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9780470673355.