Officers and Council 2009-10

The Council is the governing body of the Academy. It is chaired by the President and is comprised of eight officers and 15 ordinary members. Dr Robin Jackson, Chief Executive and Secretary of the Academy, attends Council meetings.

Officers

Sir Adam Roberts, President

Karin Barber, Vice President, Humanities
Michael Fulford, Chairman of the Board for Academy-Sponsored Institutes and Societies (and ex-officio Vice-President)
Dame Hazel Genn, Chair of the Communications and Activities Committee (and ex-officio Vice-President)
Duncan Gallie, Foreign Secretary (and ex-officio Vice-President)
Susan Mendus, Vice-President, Social Sciences
Roger Kain, Honorary Treasurer (and ex-officio Vice-President)
Albert Weale, Chairman of the Research Committee (and ex-officio Vice-President)
Chris Wickham, Publications Secretary (and ex-officio Vice-President)

President

Sir Adam Roberts

Adam Roberts became President of the British Academy in July 2009. He was elected to the Fellowship of the Academy in 1990. Within the subject-area of international relations his main research interests are in the fields of international security, international organizations, and international law, including the laws of war. He has also worked extensively on the role of civil resistance against dictatorial regimes and foreign rule, and on the history of thought about international relations. His principal publications include Nations in Arms: The Theory and Practice of Territorial Defence (2nd edn., Macmillan, 1986), Hugo Grotius and International Relations ((co-authored) Oxford University Press, 1990), Documents on the Laws of War ((co-authored) 3rd edn., Oxford University Press, 2000), The United Nations Security Council and War: The Evolution of Thought and Practice since 1945 ((co-authored) Oxford University Press, 2008), and Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the Present ((co-authored) Oxford University Press, forthcoming, 2009). He has also published numerous articles in professional journals.

Professor Roberts is Senior Research Fellow, Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford University, and an Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. From 1986 to 2007 he was Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at Oxford University, and before that held appointments at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and St Antony’s College, Oxford. He has held visiting appointments at New York University, Tokyo University, the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna and the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars in Washington DC. Member, UK Defence Academy Advisory Board since 2003. He was knighted (KCMG) in 2002.

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Vice-Presidents

Professor Karin Barber, Vice President (Humanities)

Professor Karin Barber was elected as Vice-President in 2008 and will serve until 2010. She has been a Fellow of the Academy since 2003. Her principal publications include I could speak until tomorrow: Oriki, Woman and the Past in a Yoruba Town (1991), The Generation of Plays: Yoruba Popular Life in Theatre (2000), Africa's Hidden Histories: Everyday Literacy and Making the Self (ed, 2006) and The Anthropology of Texts, Persons and Publics (2007). Her main research interest is African everyday culture, with a central focus on verbal texts, both oral and written, in African languages. Most of her research has been concentrated on the Yoruba speaking area of southwestern Nigeria, but she has also done broader comparative work on popular culture across sub-Saharan Africa and on approaches to texts in Africa and beyond.

Professor Barber is currently Professor of African Cultural Anthropology at the Centre of West Africa Studies, University of Birmingham. She has held visiting appointments at Northwestern University, first as Preceptor of the Institute of Advanced Study and Research in the African Humanities (1993-94) and then as Melville Herskovits Distinguished Visiting Professor (1999). She was President of the African Studies Association of the UK (2000-02) and is editor of Africa, the journal of the International African Institute. She has been given a Yoruba chieftaincy title, and is the Iyamoye of Okuku.

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Michael Fulford, Chairman of the Board for Academy-Sponsored Institutes and Societies (and ex-officio Vice-President)

Michael Fulford has been Chairman of the Board for Academy-Sponsored Institutes and Societies (BASIS) and ex-officio Vice-President since 2005. He was elected to the Fellowship in 1994. He is an archaeologist whose principal interests are Roman urban archaeology, economy and trade, material culture, and landscape and technology. His recent publications include Life and Labour in Late Roman Silchester: Excavations in Insula IX from 1997 ((co-authored) Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 2006), Iron Age and Romano-British Settlements and Landscapes of Salisbury Plain (Wessex Archaeology, 2006), and Lullingstone Roman Villa (English Heritage, 2003) as well as numerous chapters and articles.

Professor Fulford is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Reading, where he has been based since 1974, as well as Director of the Field School at Silchester. He is currently President of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies and Chair of Main Panel H (Architecture and the Built Environment, Town and Country Planning, Geography and Environmental Studies, Archaeology) for the 2008 national Research Assessment Exercise. He was Pro Vice-Chancellor at the University of Reading 1998-2004.

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Duncan Gallie, Foreign Secretary (and ex-officio Vice-President)

Duncan Gallie has been Foreign Secretary and ex-officio Vice-President of the British Academy since 2006. He was elected to the Fellowship of the Academy in 1995. He is a sociologist whose work has focussed on the quality of employment and on unemployment and welfare. His publications include In Search of the New Working Class (Cambridge University Press, 1978); Social Inequality and Class Radicalism in France and Britain, (Cambridge University Press, 1983) and Restructuring the Employment Relationship ((co-authored) Oxford University Press, 1998), as well as a number of journal articles.

Professor Gallie has been an Official Fellow of Nuffield College since 1985 and Professor of Sociology in the University of Oxford since 1996. He has also held positions at the universities of Essex and Warwick.

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Dame Hazel Genn, Chair of the Communications and Publications Committee

Dame Hazel took up her appointment as Chair of the Communications and Activities Committee in July 2009. She has been a Fellow of the Academy since 2000, and has been a member of its Council (2001-04) and a Vice-President (2002-04). She is a distinguished empirical legal researcher and expert in access to justice and dispute resolution. Her principal publications are: Hard Bargaining, OUP 1987; Paths to Justice, Hart Publishing, 1999; Paths to Justice Scotland, Hart Publishing 2001; Judging Civil Justice, 60th Hamlyn Lectures, CUP 2009.

Dame Hazel is Dean of Laws, Professor of Socio-Legal Studies and co-director of the Centre for Empirical Legal Studies in the Faculty of Laws at University College London, where she is also an Honorary Fellow. Previously, she held a Chair and was Head of the Department of Law at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. She has held research posts at Oxford University Centre for Socio-Legal Studies and the Cambridge Institute of Criminology . She is an Inaugural Commissioner of the Judicial Appointments Commission and was a member of the Committee on Standards in Public Life 2003-2007. She worked with the Judicial Studies Board for 12 years, serving as a member of the Main Board and the Tribunals Committee, and contributing to the design and delivery of training for the judiciary at all levels. In 2008 she was elected Honorary Master of the Bench of Gray's Inn.

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Roger Kain, Honorary Treasurer (and ex-officio Vice-President)

Roger Kain has been Honorary Treasurer and ex-officio Vice-President of the British Academy since 2002. He has also been Vice-President (1997-99) and Chairman of the Research Grants Committee (1999-2002). He was elected to the Fellowship of the Academy in 1990. His research focus is the history of maps and mapping. His publications include Cadastral Maps in the Service of the State (University of Chicago Press, 1992 and winner of the Newberry Library Kenneth Nebenzahl Prize), The Tithe Maps of England and Wales (Cambridge University Press, 1995 and winner of the Library Association’s McColvin Medal), Historical Atlas of South-West England (Exeter University Press, 1999), English Maps: a History (British Library, 2000) and The Enclosure Maps of England and Wales, 1585-1918 (Cambridge University Press, 2004).

Professor Kain is a graduate and fellow of University College London and has been Montefiore Professor of Geography, University of Exeter since 1991 and Deputy Vice-Chancellor from 2002; he is now Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research). He isa member of the DfES Higher Education Research Forum and the Research Information Network Advisory Board, and has been a member of the UUK and HEFCE/AHRC working groups on research assessment after 2008. Professor Kain was appointed CBE in the 2005 Birthday Honours List.

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Professor Susan Mendus, Vice President (Social Sciences)

Susan Mendus became Vice President (Social Sciences) in July 2009. She has been a Fellow of the Academy since 2004. Her principal publications include Toleration and the Limits of Liberalism (1989), Feminism and Emotion (2000), Impartiality in Moral and Political Philosophy (2002), Religious Toleration in an Age of Terrorism (2008), and Politics and Morality (forthcoming, 2009).  Her current interests include religious freedom and religious toleration, political lying, and liberal theories of justice. She has a long-standing interest in problems of toleration, both historical and modern, and for over 25 years has been closely involved with the Morrell Centre for Toleration at the University of York. She was Director of the Morrell Centre from 1995 until 2000.

Professor Mendus joined the University of York in 1975 and has been Professor of Political Philosophy there since 1996. She has also held visiting positions at the Australian National University, Canberra, and at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

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Professor Albert Weale, Chairman of the Research Committee (and ex-officio Vice-President)

Albert Weale took up his appointment as Chairman of the Research Committee in July 2008. He has been a Fellow of the Academy since 1998. His principal publications include Equality and Social Policy (1978), Political Theory and Social Policy (1983), The New Politics of Pollution (1992), Democratic Citizenship and the European Union (2005) and Democracy (second edition, 2007). His current interests include the normative theory of democracy, theories of justice, the normative political theory of European integration, and political theory and public policy, especially health and environmental policies.

Professor Weale has been Professor of Government at the University of Essex and co-editor of the British Journal of Political Science since 1992. Before that he was Professor of Politics at the University of East Anglia (1985-92), and before that Lecturer in Politics (1976-85) and Assistant Director of the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (1982-85) at the University of York. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1993. He was a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics 1998-2004 and took over at its Chairman in 2008.

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Professor Chris Wickham, Publications Secretary

Chris Wickham took up his appointment as the Academy's Publications Secretary in July 2009. Has has been a Fellow of the Academy since 1998. His principal publications include The Inheritance of Rome (2009), Framing the Early Middle Ages (2005), Courts and Conflict in Twelfth-century Tuscany (2003), Community and Clientele in Twelfth-century Tuscany (1998), The Mountains and the City (1988), (with J.W. Fentress), Social Memory (1992), Land and Power in Early Medieval Europe (1994), and Early Medieval Italy (1981). His main research interests are in medieval Italy, and the comparative history and archaeology of early medieval Europe. His research focus in Italy for many years has been Tuscany but he is now working on the history of Rome in the tenth to twelfth centuries.

Professor Wickham is at present Chichele Professor of Medieval History in the University of Oxford, and until 2012 is Chair of the Faculty of History there. Before 2005, he worked for nearly thirty years at the University of Birmingham, becoming Professor of Medieval History. He has also held visiting appointments in Florence, Barcelona, and Paris, and works with archaeologists at the University of Siena. He was a member of the History sub-panel for the 2008 RAE. He was for fifteen years (1994-2009) editor of Past and Present.

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Ordinary Members

Professor Timothy Besley
Professor Joseph Bergin
Professor Nicholas Boyle
Rev'd Canon Professor David Brown
Professor Nicholas Cook
Professor Ian Diamond
Professor Sir Roy Goode
Professor Marian Hobson
Professor Geraint Jenkins
Professor April McMahon
Professor Linda Newson
Professor John Sloboda
Professor Megan Vaughan

Group Chairmen

Professor Hugh Williamson (Group Chair, Humanities)
Professor Paul Edwards (Group Chair, Social Sciences)