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Nicholas Jeremy Thomas FBA FAHA (born 1960) is an Australian-born anthropologist, Professor of Historical Anthropology, and Director, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge since 2006, and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge since 2007.
Nicholas Thomas is the Director of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge University. He is a renowned scholar of art, culture and history in Oceania, Europe and beyond, and has curated several exhibitions at MAA and other venues.
Nicholas Thomas is a professor of anthropology and the director of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge University. He specializes in Pacific cultures, material culture, colonialism and art history.
In the end, The Return of Curiosity might have been either a more effective shorter essay, or a more convincing (if bulkier) monograph. But these were not the works that Thomas set out to write, and I for one have nevertheless been considerably enlightened by the book that he has written.
In this collection of essays, Nicholas Thomas, a leading theorist of historical anthropology, explores the historicization of cultural encounters in the region referred to as Oceania.
May 25, 2006 · Nicholas Thomas, Professor of Anthropology at Goldsmiths College, will be the new Director of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology from October 2006. He is a leading scholar of art, culture, and history in the Pacific Islands, and has written several books and curated exhibitions on these topics.
Nicholas Thomas is the director of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. His books include The Return of Curiosity: What Museums are Good for in the 21st Century (Reaktion Books, 2016) and Gauguin and Polynesia (Head of Zeus, 2024)
