Caroline Humphrey's mother was her father's second wife, architect Margaret Justin Blanco White ; she has a younger sister, the mathematician Dusa McDuff, and an elder half-brother, the physicist C Jake Waddington, by her father's first marriage to Cecil Elizabeth Lascelles.
10 Facts About Caroline Humphrey
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Caroline Humphrey's PhD, completed in 1973, was entitled Magical Drawings in the Religion of the Buryat.
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Caroline Humphrey received the Rivers Memorial Medal in 1999, and, in 2003, an Honorary Doctorate from the National University of Mongolia.
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Caroline Humphrey was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Bolton in 2017 for her outstanding contribution to the field of anthropology.
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In 1967, Caroline Waddington married Nicholas Humphrey; they had no children and divorced in 1977.
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Caroline Humphrey has conducted research in Siberia, Nepal, India, Mongolia, China, Uzbekistan and Ukraine.
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Caroline Humphrey's PhD focussed on Buryat religious iconography, and ensuing research topics have included Soviet collective farms, the farming economy in India and Tibet, Jainist culture in India, and environmental and cultural conservation in Inner Asia.
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Caroline Humphrey co-founded the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit in 1986 at Cambridge.
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Caroline Humphrey retired from her post as Sigrid Rausing Professor of Collaborative Anthropology at the University of Cambridge to become Voluntary Research Director of MIASU in October 2010.
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Caroline Humphrey has been a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge since 1978.