M.A from Stanford University

B.A from Haverford College in Pennsylvania.

Ph.D in history from Harvard University in 1977.

Recent honors and grants of James Clifford include:

• 2004:Doctor of Letters, Honoris Causa,Haverford College.

• 2003 - Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, UCSC.

• 2000 - The Faculty Research Lecture, UCSC.

• 1996 - The Pavis Lecturer, Open University, Milton Keynes, England.

• 1994 - The Buckham Scholar, University of Vermont, Spring visitor.

• 1990-91 American Council of Learned Societies Research Fellowship.

• 1990 - Henry Luce Visiting Scholar, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University.

Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century,The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art , Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (A School of American Research advanced seminar) .