Visiting Fellowships: 2008 Awards

In the third year of the new programme, 47 Visiting Fellowships were awarded in March 2008, for visits during the financial year 2008-09.

Awards are arranged alphabetically by surname of the Visiting Fellow.

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

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

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

Dr G A Adeoti
Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria
Aesthetics of Adaptation in Nigerian Literary Drama
Dr J E Plastow, Leeds University
£11869
Africa

Dr E M Akpabio
University of Uyo, Nigeria, Nigeria
Indigenous Water Management and the Challenges of State Institutions in the Cross River Basin, Nigeria
Dr J E Castro, Newcastle University
£11963
Africa

Dr A Al-Hussainy
Al-Qadissiyah University, Diwaniyah, Iraq
The City of Murad in Mesopotamia: its history and archaeology.
Professor R Matthews, University College London
£11,292
Middle East

Dr S S Al-Makhamreh
Al- Balqa Applied University, Jordan
The Development of social work interventions to meet the needs of marginal groups in Jordan: Iraqi refugees and Bedouin.
Professor Gillian Lewando Hundt, University of Warwick
£11,998
Middle East

Dr A Benito Calvo
University Complutense of Madrid, Spain
Applying GIS techniques to the location of archaeological sites in the Serrania de Cuenca (Central Iberian Chain, Spain)
Dr I De la Torre, University College London
£4263

Dr F Boccuni
Italy
Metatheory of the Logical System for Arithmetic Predictive Grundgesetze
Dr O Linnebo, University of Bristol
£6163

Dr C Chen
Renmin University of China, China
Ill health and poor households' coping strategies in rural China
Dr G Bloom, Sussex University
£9899
China

Dr N Cicek
Ankara University, Turkey
How ‘Childish’ were the Ottoman/Turkish Children? Childhood As a Social
Construction in the 19th-Century Ottoman Empire and the Early Republican Era.
Dr B Fortna, School of Oriental and African Studies
£6,421
Middle East

Dr R N Colson
Université de Nantes, France
Fair trial and managerialism in criminal justice: an Anglo-French study in comparative law
Dr S Field, Cardiff University
£11507

Dr D Deak
University of SS Cyril and Methodius, Slovak Republic
Text and context: Exploring Pirs, Sants and their Bhaktas in pre-colonial Maharashtra
Professor H Pilkington, University of Warwick
£11634

Dr C H Debena
University of Asmara, Eritrea
Mother tongue language policy in a globalising world: The case of Eritrea
Dr J Holmes, Leeds University
£11225
Africa

Dr A Diagne
IPDSR, Senegal, Senegal
The impacts of migration to Europe on family dynamics in African sending populations
Dr S C Randall, University College London
£11999
Africa

Dr B Y Dumanov
New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria
Archaeology of Gothic Identity: The Goths on Lower Danube
Dr J C Chapman, University of Durham
£8154

Dr A Duplouy
Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
Defining citizenship in Archaic Greek cities
Dr R Brock, University of Leeds
£11897

Dr M Elzirik
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
The impact of psychological therapy for mother's Borderline Personality Disorder on her child's psychological well being
Professor P Fonagy, University College London
£11999
Latin America and Caribbean

A Feldman
University of Haifa, Israel
The Reworking of the Pentateuch in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Prof G J Brooke, University of Manchester
£11,933
Middle East

Dr A Gallego
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
Phases and variation
Professor I Roberts, University of Cambridge
£11796

Dr R S Garraffoni
Parana Federal University, Brazil, Brazil
Reading Pompeii's walls: a social archaeological approach to Roman graffiti
Dr R Laurence, Birmingham University
£11999
Latin America and Caribbean

Dr A Ghosh
University of Delhi, India
The Politics of Performance: the Uses of Spectacles for Political Mobilisation in Contemporary India.
Dr D Anand, University of Westminster
£10,954
South Asia

Dr P Guillaume
Switzerland
Land Tenure in Persian Yehud
Dr D Edelman, University of Sheffield
£10497

Dr T Ismail
Iraq Ministry of Health
Child Health and Poverty in Iraq since 2001: Determinants and Differentials
Dr Zoë Matthews, Southampton Social Statistics Research Institute (S3RI)
£10,944
Middle East

Dr Q Ke
Yat-sen University, China
Women's experiences, the beauty myth and the Chinese medical system: A case study on the story of PAAG in China
Professor S Thornham, Sussex University
£11985
China

Dr A Keshmirshekan
University of Tarbiyat-Modarres, Iran
Towards Hybridisation: the Contextual Meaning of Contemporary Iranian Art in the early 21st century.
Professor J Allan, University of Oxford,
£8,854
Middle East

Dr P Kiura
National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya
Human dietary and subsistence behaviour using fish isotope analysis and food residues in ceramics around and within Lake Turkana and Victoria in Kenya: Possible clues to the subsistence and economy of our ancestors.
Professor J Lee-Thorp, Bradford University
£10555
Africa

Dr M D G Lanci da Silva
Universidade Salvador - UNIFACS, Brazil
Urban regeneration, heritage and the specularisation of public space
Dr G Richards, University of the West of England
£9312
Latin America and Caribbean

Dr T Lewinsky
University of Munich, Germany
"In the German Diaspora". An Anthology of Yiddish DP-Writing
Dr S J Taberner, University of Leeds
£11991

Dr B Lou
Henan Normal University, China
A corpus-based comparative study of the EAP writings and its application
Professor W Teubert, Birmingham University
£12000
China

Dr M Mazumdar
Dhirubhai Ambani Institute for Information and Communication Technology, India.
Refugee Resettlement in the Andaman Islands: Colonial Precedents, Post-Colonial Predicaments.
Dr C Anderson, University of Warwick.
£11,945
South Asia

Dr S Misra
Jamia Millia University, India
Between Borders: The Politics of Space and Identity in Colonial Assam
Professor P Robb, School of Oriental and African Studies
£6,508
South Asia

Dr G Ofek
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
The New Woman’s Testament: Biblical Narratives, Allusions and Imagery in New Woman Fiction 1880-1910.
Professor A Heilmann, University of Hull
£11,812
Middle East

Dr O J Ogen
Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria
Slavery, Piracy and Trade on the Eastern Coast of Yorubaland, 1870-1900
Dr I Nolte, Birmingham University
£11188
Africa

Dr A P Peat
University of Toronto at Scarborough, Canada
Global modernism and the culture of exhibition
Professor A J Thacker, De Montfort University
£7411

Dr L Pujol-Tost
University of the Aegean, Spain
Understanding the virtual: integrated evaluation of ICT applications in cultural heritage museums
Dr H Rees Leahy, University of Manchester
£11164

Dr Y Qi
Yangzhou University, China
Teaching Welsh learners through traditional Chinese teaching methods
Professor A Wray, Cardiff University
£11996
China

Dr R E Quiza
Instituto de Historia de Cuba, Cuba
The invisible subject: Workers in Cuban historiography, 1860-2007
Dr A Smith, Leeds University
£11930
Latin America and Caribbean

Dr G A Rampaul
The University of the West Indies, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago
Shakespeare in Caribbean Literature
Professor J D Gillies, Essex University
£6403
Latin America and Caribbean

Dr Rashmi
University of Delhi, India
From Colonial City to City in Colonial India: Madras, 1639-1860s
Professor R Ahujka, School of Oriental and African Studies
£5,700
South Asia

Dr Z Ren
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
A study of customs and finance systems of late Qing China (1840-1911)
Dr J Lovell, Birkbeck, University of London
£11624
China

Dr Ö Senyuva
Middle East Technical University, Ankara
Understanding similarities and differences in British and Turkish attitudes toward expanding the European Union’s Role
Professor R Rose, University of Aberdeen
£9,852
Middle East

Dr M Sharma
University of Delhi, India
Framing the Medical Market: Medical Advertisements in Colonial North India c. 1900-1947
Dr J Mills, University of Strathclyde
£11,379
South Asia

Dr S Sookram
The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago
Measuring poverty and inequality in Trinidad and Tobago
Dr A Kedir, Leicester University
£6179
Latin America and Caribbean

Dr L Tønder
Northwestern University, United States
Rethinking tolerance: Spinoza, democracy, and the politics of pain
Dr L Thomassen, Queen Mary, University of London
£11924

Dr O Uryupina
Russian Academy of Science, Russia
Document compression with discourse knowledge
Dr M Lapata, Edinburgh University
£5737

Dr D V Vigneswaran
University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
Migration Policing in South Africa: Policy and Implementation
Professor S Castles, Oxford University
£8666

Dr T Yahia-Younis
Haifa University, Israel
Constructing Gender and Gendering Citizenship: The Case of Palestinian-Arabs in Israel
Dr N Al-Ali, School of Oriental and African Studies
£10653

Dr X Zhang
Centre for Bioethics at Peking Union Medical College, China, China
Social Aspects of Ethical Review Procedures in the UK and China: A Comparative Perspective
Dr M E Sleeboom-Faulkner, Sussex University
£12000
China

Dr A Zuoshi
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
48 Chia: The Project of Civilization in Liangshan, Southwest China (1923-1949)
Dr U E Bulag, Cambridge University
£11773
China