The William Wyse Professorship of Social Anthropology is a professorship in social anthropology at the University of Cambridge. It was founded on 18 June 1932 and endowed partly with the support of Trinity College from money bequeathed to them by William Wyse, formerly Fellow and Honorary Fellow of Trinity.
The professorship is assigned to the Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology.
List of William Wyse Professors of Social Anthropology 1932–1937 – Thomas Callan Hodson 1937–1950 – John Henry Hutton 1950–1973 – Meyer Fortes 1973–1984 – Jack Goody 1984–1992 – Ernest André Gellner 1993–2008 – Marilyn Strathern 2008–2014 – Henrietta Moore 2016–2024 – James Laidlaw From September 2025 – Rebecca Cassidy
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