Hugh Brody is a British anthropologist, writer, director and lecturer. He was born in 1943 and educated at Trinity College, Oxford. He taught social anthropology at Queen's University Belfast. He is an Honorary Associate of the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge, and an Associate of the School for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto. He is Professor Emeritus at University of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford, British Columbia where he held a Canada Research Chair from 2005 to 2017.