British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Winners of the 2007 British Academy Medals and Prizes
On 19 November 2007 Onora O’Neill, President of the British Academy, awarded medals and prizes to seven scholars for outstanding contributions to their fields of study. The ceremony, held at the Academy, also congratulated four early career scholars who have been recently awarded publishing contracts in the prestigious British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monograph series.
The 2007 Medal and Prizes winners are:
Burkitt Medal for Biblical Studies: Professor Alberto Soggin, Professor Emeritus of Old Testament, University of Rome - For outstanding service to biblical studies
Derek Allen Prize for Musicology: Professor Philip V. Bohlman for The Music of European Nationalism: Cultural Identity and Modern History Santa Barbara, Denver and Oxford; ABC-CLIO, 2004. Professor Bohlman is Mary Werkman Professor of the Humanities and of Music, and Chair of Jewish Studies at the University of Chicago and was elected this year as a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.
John Coles Medal for Landscape Archaeology: Professor Andrew Fleming, Emeritus Professor of Archaeology, University of Wales, Lampeter - For his distinguished achievement in landscape archaeology in various countries.
Sir Israel Gollancz Prize for English Language and Literature: Professor James Simpson for Reform and Cultural Revolution (Oxford English Literary History Volume 2, 1350-1547) Professor Simpson is Professor of English and American Literature at Harvard University.
Kenyon Medal for Classical Studies: Professor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd, FBA, formerly Master of Darwin College, Cambridge and Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy and Science, University of Cambridge - For lifetime work in the history of ancient Greek science and thought and classical Chinese science
Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for English Literature: Dr Susan Oliver for Scott, Byron and the Poetics of Cultural Encounter, London Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Dr Oliver is Lecturer in Literature and Culture of the Long Nineteenth Century at the University of Salford.
Serena Medal for Italian Studies: Professor Conor Fahy, Emeritus Professor of Italian, University of London - For eminent service to the study of Italian culture, especially literary and linguistic history
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monograph Authors
Contracts have been awarded in 2007 to:
Dr Chris Briggs, University of Cambridge, for Credit and Village in Fourteenth-Century England
Dr Rebecca Empson, University of Cambridge, for Harnessing Fortune: The Aesthetic Technology of Separating and Containing in Mongolia
Dr Kathryn Gleadle, University of Oxford, for Women and the Making of Political Subjectivity: Women, Gender and Political Culture in Britain, 1815-1867
Dr Elisabeth Schröder-Butterfill, University of Southampton, for Ageing, Networks and Exchange: Old-age Support Dynamics in Indonesia
The ceremony also noted three prizes that have been awarded to Fellows of the Academy during 2007:
- Balzan Prize for outstanding contributions to international law: Dame Rosalyn Higgins, FBA, President of the International Court of Justice
- The Nobel Prize in Economics: Professor Eric S. Maskin, Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy
- Holberg International Memorial Prize for scholarly work in the arts and humanities, social science, law and theology: Professor Ronald Dworkin, QC, FBA Bentham Professor of Jurisprudence, University of London.
Short summaries and citations and further information on the history and nature of the medals and prizes are available from the Academy’s website.
http://www.britac.ac.uk/misc/medals/index.html
NOTES TO EDITORS
Published:
22 November 2007
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