Dean of Arts
Professor Roy Dilley
Roy Dilley trained as a Social Anthropologist at Oxford and conducted research for his doctorate in Senegal, West Africa. He subsequently carried out two further research projects in Northern Ireland and Scotland as a post-doctoral fellow at Queen's and then at Aberdeen University. Appointed to a Lectureship at the University of St Andrews in 1988, he became Professor of Social Anthropology in 2006.
In 2001, he was elected to the Sir Edward E. Evans-Pritchard Lectureship at All Souls College, Oxford, and took up a Visiting Fellowship at the same college in 2003. He has twice served as Head of Department of Social Anthropology at St Andrews, and was made Dean of Arts in 2009. Professor Dilley is a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute