New Year Honours 2012
Professor Karin BARBER CBE
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
Organisation: University of Birmingham
“Professor of African Cultural Anthropology, University of Birmingham. For services to African Studies.”
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
Professor of African Cultural Anthropology, University of Birmingham. For services to African Studies.
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“Professor of African Cultural Anthropology, University of Birmingham. For services to African Studies.”
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The Commander of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 94 times in the New Year Honours List 2012 — about 10% of the list.
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58 Commander of the Order of the British Empire recipients are from West Midlands.
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 2012
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (New Year Honours List 2012). No individual Gazette notice has been matched to this record yet.
Published 30 December 2011.
Location (West Midlands) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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