Prof J D Y Peel, FBA

Career: asst lectr and lectr in sociology Univ of Nottingham 1966-70, lectr in sociology LSE 1970-73, visiting reader in sociology and anthropology Univ of Ife Nigeria 1973-75, Charles Booth prof of sociology Univ of Liverpool 1975-89 (dean of Faculty of Social and Environmental Studies 1985-88), visiting prof of anthropology and sociology Univ of Chicago 1982-83, prof of anthropology and sociology with reference to Africa SOAS Univ of London 1989-2007 (dean of undergraduate studies 1990-94, emeritus prof 2007-), Birkbeck lectr in ecclesiastical history Univ of Cambridge 2009, Winchester lectr in world religions Univ of Oxford 2011; ed Africa (jl of Int African Inst) 1979-86, gen ed Int African Library 1985-; writer of numerous scholarly articles in Africanist, anthropological and sociological jls; Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology 1983 and 2000, Herskovits Award for African Studies (USA) 1984 and 2001; memb Assoc of Social Anthropologists 1979, pres African Studies Assoc of UK 1996-98; Hon DLitt Univ of Birmingham 2012; FBA 1991 (vice-pres 1999-2000)

Books and Publications: Aladura: A Religious Movement among the Yoruba (1968), Herbert Spencer: The Evolution of a Sociologist (1971), Ijeshas and Nigerians: The Incorporation of a Yoruba Kingdom (1983), Religious Encounter and the Making of the Yoruba (2000), Christianity and Social Change in Africa: Essays in Honor of J D Y Peel (festschrift, 2005)