British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Forty-nine outstanding scholars elected as British Academy Fellows
The Annual General Meeting of the British Academy – the Academy’s 106th – has elected 38 new Fellows, in recognition of the excellence of their academic achievements. They include evolutionary anthropologist Ruth Mace (University College London), philosopher Roger Scruton (University of Oxford and Institute for the Psychological Sciences, Arlington, Virginia), Islamic art historian Robert Hillenbrand (University of Edinburgh), contemporary China specialist Vivienne Shue (University of Oxford) and geographer Susan J Smith (Durham University).
The Academy also elected a further ten overseas scholars as Corresponding Fellows, including American philosopher and social commentator, Martha Nussbaum (University of Chicago) and the cinema and film historian Thomas Elsaesser (University of Amsterdam).
The epidemiologist Sir Michael Marmot (University College London) was elected as an Honorary Fellow.
Welcoming the new Fellows into the Academy, Professor O’Neill said “Election to Fellowship is the principal way in which the Academy recognises outstanding scholarly achievement. It comes as the culmination of a rigorous selection process in which each of the Academy's eighteen different academic sections is involved.
“This year we are pleased to welcome new Fellows from all of the disciplines represented in the Academy, displaying a variety of interests, from human rights law to church history, from Middle East archaeology to clinical psychology, and from Maori studies to the philosophy of science.”
An admissions ceremony will take place on 24 September 2008 where the President will welcome the new Fellows and invite them to add their names to the Academy’s historic roll, which includes the signatures of such eminent scholars as Isaiah Berlin, Kenneth Clark, John Maynard Keynes and Mortimer Wheeler.
A full list of all the newly elected Fellows can be found here
NOTES TO EDITORS
Published:
17 July 2008
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