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Visiting Fellowships: 2007 Awards

In the second year of the new programme, 54 Visiting Fellowships were awarded in March 2007, for visits during the financial year 2007-08.

Awards are arranged alphabetically by surname of the Visiting Fellow.

Africa signifies that the award is one of five recommended by the Academy's Africa Panel.
Latin America and Caribbean signifies that the award is one of four recommended by the Academy's Latin America and the Caribbean Panel.
China signifies one of two British Academy-Economic and Social Research Council China Visiting Fellowships, funded jointly by the Academy and the ESRC's China Selection Panel.
Middle East signifies one of twelve British Academy-Economic and Social Research Council Middle East Visiting Fellowships, funded jointly by the Academy and the ESRC.
South Asia signifies one of seven British Academy-Economic and Social Research Council South Asia Visiting Fellowships, funded jointly by the Academy and the ESRC.

Note: this scheme is funded under the Full Economic Costing (FEC) regime. See information about the scheme in the Guide to Awards.

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Dr K S A Al-Shehari
Sana'a University of Science and Technology, Yemen
Translating brand names of medicine-related products between English and Arabic
Dr B Adab (Aston University)
£10381
Middle East

Dr M S Al-Zyoud
The University of Jordan, Jordan
Peace education in Jordanian and British schools:  A comparative study
Professor W J Morgan (University of Nottingham)
£7602
Middle East

Dr S Assaf
University of Baghdad, Iraq
The living conditions of Iraqi women in a context dominated by unemployment and ambient insecurity
Dr M Mundy (London School of Economics and Political Science)
£11917
Middle East

Dr C Bodea
Michigan State University, United States
Civil wars as one of several alternative manifestations of conflict
Dr T Plumper (University of Essex)
£3042
           
Dr B Busse
Westfalische Wilhems Universitat, Germany
Speech, writing and thought presentation:  Electronic construction, annotation and analysis of a selected corpus of 19th century British English printed texts
Professor M H Short (University of Lancaster)
£11881

Dr J G Cegarra-Navarro
Universidad Politecnica de Cartagena, Spain
Comparing knowledge management succession practices in SMEs from the UK and Spain
Dr J R Cordoba-Pachon (University of Hull)
£7380

Dr G Cruces
Universidad Nacional de la Plata, Argentina,
Accounting for income fluctuations in distributional analysis: Theory, evidence and implications on poverty and inequality in developing countries from British and European household panel data
Professor F Cowell (London School of Economics and Political Science)
£6853
Latin America and the Caribbean

Dr J R Cruickshank
University of Melbourne, Australia, Oceania
Friend of my soul:  Mary Bosanquet Fletcher and the friendships of women in early English Methodism
Dr J Gregory (University of Manchester)
£3507

Dr P De Silva
University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
Ethno-religious diversity and exclusion:  Buddhicization of a popular pilgrimage site in Sri Lanka
Professor J R Spencer (University of Edinburgh)
£10097
South Asia

Dr A Eideh
Alquds University, Palestinian National Authority
Fitting general linear models for longitudinal survey data under informative sampling
Professor P W F Smith (University of Southampton)
£5619
Middle East

Dr E Erten
Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey
The development of townscape as an urban design and conservation pedagogy: The architectural review and work of Thomas Sharp
Mr J Pendlebury (University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
£4119
Middle East

Dr A Fayyad
Consultative Centre for Studies and Documentation, Lebanon
Dilemmas of development in unstable and fragile societies
Dr K Sen (INTRAC)
£11936
Middle East

Dr A Garnai
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Tainted with democracy:  British women writers and the French Revolution
Professor H C Guest , University of York
£4724
Middle East

Dr A O Garuba
Federal College of Education, Yola, Nigeria
Assessment of value of Scotland's social practices literacies approach to literacy education practices in Nigeria
Professor J Preece (University of Glasgow)
£11969
Africa

Dr N He
Nanjing University, China
Thomas Hardy's "Englishness" and China
Professor R Pite (Cardiff University)
£11157
China

Dr P L Hill
University of New South Wales, Australia
Within household inequalities and time use
Professor S Himmelweit (Open University)
£5625

Professor Y Hu
Central Communist Party School of China, China
Tibet issue in Sino-Anglo-US relations
Dr U Pagel (School of Oriental and African Studies)
£7120
China

Dr P V Ilieva
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Sub-geometric pottery of the North-Eastern Aegean:  Style, production and distribution patterns
Professor R Smith (University of Oxford)
£11782

Dr A H Ingolfsson
Iceland Academy of the Arts, Iceland
Icelandic sacred song and its transmission, 1500-1750
Professor R Strohm, FBA (University of Oxford)
£6941

Dr K I Iqbal                                                                                                              
East West University, Bangladesh,
Location of the nation:  Bangladesh in British archives, 1966-1971
Dr J E Wilson (King's College London)
£11974
South Asia

Dr H Jad
Bir Zeit University, Palestinian National Authority
Forging a common ground between secularism and Islamism:  Exploring the field
Professor H Elsadda (University of Manchester)
£9059
Middle East

Dr D Jamali
American University of Beirut, Lebanon
The corporate community involvement of multinational enterprises:  A comparative perspective of the UK and Lebanon
Dr A I Millington (University of Bath)
£11059
Middle East

Dr B W Kankpeyeng
University of Ghana, Ghana
Remembering slave trade abolitions
Dr J L Webster (University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
£6339
Africa

Dr M F A Khan
Lahore University of management Sciences, Pakistan
Broken hearts, shared spaces:  The survivors of the partition of India in the United Kingdom
Dr A Valassopoulos (University of Manchester)
£9126
South Asia

Dr O Khanina
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Russia
Russian-language contact-induced change in Enets (1960s-1990s):  Structural patterns and their social context
Dr M Meyerhoff (University of Edinburgh)
£11964

Dr R M Kok
McGill University, Canada
Disseminating Classical Music in the British Empire
Professor K J Ellis (School of Advanced Study, University of London)
£10983

Dr E Kolsky
Villanova University, United States
Colonial justice: White violence and the rule of law in British India
Dr J Mills (University of Strathclyde)
£11289

Professor L Kopar
The Catholic University of America, United States
Intercultural dialogue and the formation of cultural identity in the 10th and 11th century Anglo-Scandinavian communities
Dr J Carroll (University of Leicester)
£11215

Dr C J Korieh
Rowan University, United States
African voices:  Letters of petition from colonial Nigeria
Dr D Pratten, (University of Oxford)
£4868
Africa

Ms A Krajewska
University of Wroclaw, Poland
The socio-legal concept of property rights over genetic material in Germany, Poland and the UK: A comparison
Professor J A Dupre (University of Exeter)
£6570

Dr A Kventsel
The Hebrew University, Israel
Walter Pater and fin-de-siecle decadence
Professor F J O'Gorman (University of Leeds)
£11729
Middle East

Dr J B Lejju
Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Uganda
A multi-proxy reconstruction of past environmental variability and anthropogenic activities in the Interlacustine region of western Uganda during the pre-colonial and colonial periods
Dr D A M Reid (University College London)
£7846
Africa

Dr J Liu
Ministry of Finance, China
Fiscal decentralization and its impact on healthcare: Evidence from China
Professor S Chilton (University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
£6730

Dr G Lucas
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Experience, meaning and entertainment in Afro-Brazilian Congado ritual
Dr L Leante (Open University)
£7734
Latin America and the Caribbean

Dr Z Makhamreh
University of Jordan, Jordan
The environmental impact of agricultural policy changes on land use and household in Jordan using GIS and remote sensing
Professor R Hudson, FBA (University of Durham)
£11755
Middle East

Dr R Mazumdar
Jawaharial Nehru University, India
Globalization and Indian film culture
Dr R Thomas (University of Westminster)
£11889
South Asia

Ms T R McGee                                                                                                         
Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Adult onset offending in the Cambridge study in delinquent development
Professor D P Farrington, FBA (University of Cambridge)
£12000

Dr K Nasu
Japan
Changing concepts of religious deviance in seventeenth-century England
Professor J A I Champion (Royal Holloway, University of London)
£12000

Dr G Ofek
Bar-Ilan University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
The new woman's testament: Biblical narratives, allusion and imagery in "new woman" fiction
Professor A Heilmann (University of Hull)
£7438
Middle East

Dr O O Olasope
University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Roman jewellery, Benin beads for class structures:  Significance of adornments in ancient cultures
Professor C B R Pelling (University of Oxford)
£11199
Africa

Dr N S Paudel
ForestAction, Nepal
Understanding environmental governance within Nepal's community forestry
Professor K Homewood (University College London)
£8221
South Asia

Dr P Pinho
University of Albany, United States
Cultures of class and race in domestic life:  Maids and Brazilian families
Dr E B Silva (Open University)
£9886
Latin America and the Caribbean

Dr M C Puri
Centre for Research on Environment Health and Population Activities, Nepal
Financial exclusion form reproductive health services in Nepal
Dr Z Matthews (University of Southampton)
£10039
South Asia

Dr E A Rodrigues
St Xavier College, India
Religion, politics and the nation:  A case study of Dalit conversion to Buddhism
Dr J Zavos (University of Manchester)
£5284
South Asia

Dr R Sahlin
Stockholms Universitet, Sweden
The scope of reasonable adjustment as a discriminatory dilemma: A survey of British and Swedish disability discrimination legislation in comparative perspective
Dr M Priestley (University of Leeds)
£11980

Dr I Salehyan                                                                                   
University of North Texas, United States
Understanding and responding to transnational violence
Dr K S Gleditsch (University of Essex)
£5235

Dr A N Shestakova                                                                                                  
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Helsinki, Finland
Auditory processing in speech language impairment:  Magnetic mismatch negativity study
Professor H Van der Ley (University College London)
£9600

Dr M Stanley                                                                                                            
Iowa State University, United States
Huxley's church and Maxwell's demon:  The historical emergence of scientific naturalism
Dr F A J James (The Royal Institute)
£2368

Dr E Stephens                                                                                                          
University of Queensland, Australia
The body in the museum:  Public exhibitions of human bodies in British anatomy museums
Dr L M Downing (University of Exeter)
£7367

Dr K A Szabo                                                                                                           
Australian National University, Australia
Molluscs as a food source, raw material and palaeoenvironmental indicator over 45,000 years at the Niah Caves, Borneo
Professor G Barker, FBA (University of Cambridge)
£11329

Dr J A Tripp
University of Scranton, United States
Dating the Aurignacian through the AMS analysis of moluuscan shells
Dr T Higham (University of Oxford)
£10228

Dr S Ureta
Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile
Physical and communicational mobility in the everyday life of low-income inhabitants of the city of Santiago, Chile
Professor J Urry (Lancaster University)
£7636
Latin America and the Caribbean

Dr J A Westgard
University of North Carolina, United States
The continuations of Bede's "Ecclesiastical History":  An edition and study
Dr J E Story (University of Leicester)
£11877

Professor Z Yang
Wuhan University, China
International energy law and legal safeguard of China's energy security
Dr X Liao (University of Dundee)
£9126