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Winners of the 2008 British Academy Medals and Prizes
The British Academy has announced the award of five major medals and prizes which mark outstanding contributions to national and international scholarship by five eminent practitioners in different fields of the humanities. Baroness Onora O’Neill, President of the British Academy, presented the awards at a special awards ceremony on Thursday, 13 November 2008.
This year’s British Academy awards cover English Literature, Italian Studies, Prehistoric Archaeology, Biblical Studies and Numismatics (the study of coins and medals). In the same ceremony the Academy also congratulated six of its Postdoctoral Fellows who have been awarded publishing contracts in the prestigious British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monograph series.
Professor O'Neill said: "It is a great pleasure to recognise and celebrate such deep and diverse contributions to scholarship, ranging from the study of Italian Opera to writing on our understanding of long life and death, from the study of apocalyptic traditions to that of the long prehistory of humankind-- and even the human use of money. The distinguished research done by this year's prize winners sheds light far beyond academic preoccupations onto central themes of human life".
The 2008 Medal and Prizes winners are:
Burkitt Medal for Biblical Studies
Professor Richard Bauckham, FBA, FRSE, Professor of New Testament Studies and Bishop Wardlaw Professor, University of St Andrews.
Derek Allen Prize (Numismatics)
Professor Michael Metcalf, Emeritus Professor of Numismatics, University of Oxford
Grahame Clark Medal for Prehistoric Archaeology
Professor Paul Mellars, FBA, Professor of Pre-History and Human Evolution, University of Cambridge.
Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for English Literature
Dr Helen Small, Lecturer at Oxford University's English Faculty and Fellow of Pembroke College for The Long Life (Oxford University Press, 2007)
Serena Medal for Italian Studies
Professor Philip Gossett, Robert W. Reneker Distinguished Service Professor of Music, The University of Chicago
2008 British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monograph
Dr David Beresford-Jones, University of Cambridge
Putting the Tree back into the Landscape: An Archaeological Case-Study of Ecological and Cultural Collapse on the South Coast of Peru
Dr Shane Doyle, University of Leeds
Before HIV: Sexuality, Fertility and Mortality in East Africa, 1900-1980
Dr Martha Hammond, University of Oxford
Beyond Elegy: Classical Arabic Women’s Poetry in Context
Dr Gianluca Raccagni, University of Cambridge
The Societas Lombardie: Lombard League (1164-1225): A Regional Commune
Dr Helena Sanson, University of Cambridge
Women, Language and Grammar: Italy 1500–1900
Dr Sarah Washbrook, University of Oxford
Producing Modernity in Mexico: Exports, Landed Power and the State in Chiapas,1876-1914
NOTES TO EDITORS
Published:
14 November 2008
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