Department:
Biological anthropology
Biography:
Dame Alison Richard is an English anthropologist, conservationist and university administrator. She was the 344th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, the third Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge since the post became full-time, and the second woman. She was an undergraduate at Newnham College, before studying for her PhD in London. Her research studies the complex social systems among primates, principally in the forests of Madagascar. Most of her teaching career was spent at Yale, where she also served as Director of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. In 2003 she moved to Cambridge to take up the position of Vice-Chancellor. In 2010 she was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire for her services to Higher Education.
Date of Birth/Death:
1948