British Academy welcomes 53 new Fellows
19 Jul 2012
At its Annual General Meeting (19 July 2012), the British Academy elected 38 new Fellows. Each of them is a highly distinguished academic, recognised for his or her outstanding research. The Fellows represent the full range of the Academy's subject areas from early literature to law.
Sir Adam Roberts, President of the Academy said: “The new Fellows, who come from 23 institutions across the UK, have outstanding expertise across the board – from social policy and government, to sign language and music. Our Fellows play a vital role in sustaining the Academy’s activities - from identifying excellence to be supported by research awards, to contributing to policy reports and speaking at the Academy’s public events. Their presence in the Academy will help it to sustain its support for research across the humanities and social sciences, and to inspire public interest in these disciplines.”
The Academy also elected 15 new Corresponding Fellows from overseas universities. In addition, it elected Professor Sir Martin Rees OM FRS and Dame Fiona Reynolds DBE to the prestigious category of Honorary Fellowship. Baron Rees of Ludlow, former President of the Royal Society, is a cosmologist and astrophysicist who has been Astronomer Royal since 1995 and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, since 2004. Dame Fiona Reynolds is the Director-General of the National Trust, and Master-elect of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
A full list of the new British Academy Fellows and their institutions is below.
The Academy's Annual Report and further information on the Academy and its works are available online.
Editor’s notes:
- For more information or interviews, please contact Kate Rosser Frost, Press & PR Manager at the British Academy on k.rosserfrost@britac.ac.uk or 020 7969 5263.
- The British Academy, established by Royal Charter in 1902, is the national body that champions and supports the humanities and social sciences. It aims to inspire, recognise and support excellence and high achievement across the UK and internationally. For more information, please visit www.britac.ac.uk
2012 British Academy Fellows
Professor Peter Biller
Department of History, University of York
Professor Julian Birkinshaw
Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, London Business School
Professor Oliver Braddick
Emeritus Professor of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford
Professor Chris Brewin
Professor of Clinical Psychology, University College London
Professor Chris Carey
Professor of Greek, University College London
Professor Nick Chater
Behavioural Sciences Group, University of Warwick
Professor Gillian Clark
Professor Emerita and Senior Research Fellow, University of Bristol
Professor Harry Collins
Distinguished Research Professor, Cardiff University
Professor Vincent Crawford
Drummond Professor of Political Economy, University of Oxford and Fellow of All Souls College
Professor John Darwin
Beit Lecturer in the History of the Commonwealth and Fellow of Nuffield College, University of Oxford
Professor Robin Dennell
Professor Emeritus, University of Sheffield, Visiting Research Fellow, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Professor Richard Dyer
Professor of Film Studies, King’s College London
Professor Simon Franklin
Professor of Slavonic Studies, University of Cambridge
Professor Knud Haakonssen
Emeritus Professor of Intellectual History, University of Sussex
Professor Julian Hoppit
Astor Professor of British History, University College London
Professor Jane Humphries
Professor of Economic History, University of Oxford and Fellow of All Souls College
Professor Peter Jackson
Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, Keele University
Professor Michael Keating
Professor of Politics, University of Aberdeen
Professor Hugh Kennedy
Professor of Arabic, SOAS
Professor Kathleen Kiernan
Professor of Social Policy and Demography, University of York
Professor Robert Layton
Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, University of Durham
Professor Julian Le Grand
Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics
Professor Nigel Leask
Regius Professor of English Language and Literature, and Head of School of Critical Studies, College of Arts, University of Glasgow
Professor Peter Mack
Director of the Warburg Institute and Professor of the History of the Classical Tradition, University of London, and Professor of English, University of Warwick
Professor Miles Ogborn
Professor of Geography, Queen Mary, University of London
Professor Huw Price
Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy, Professorial Fellow, Trinity College, University of Cambridge
Professor David Parker
Edward Cadbury Professor of Theology and Director of the Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing, University of Birmingham
Professor Simon Schaffer
Professor of History of Science, University of Cambridge
Professor David Solkin
Walter H Anneberg Professor of History of Art, and Dean and Deputy Director, Courtauld Institute of Art
Professor Martin Stokes
Professor of Music and Fellow of St John's College, University of Oxford
Professor Charles Tripp
Professor of Politics with reference to the Middle East, SOAS
Professor Claudio Vita-Finzi
Research Associate, Natural History Museum
Professor Neil Walker
Regius Professor of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations, Edinburgh Law School
Professor Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly
Professor of German Literature, University of Oxford
Professor Paul Whiteley
Professor of Government, University of Essex
Professor Bencie Woll
Professor of Sign Language and Deaf Studies and Director of Deafness, Cognition, Research and Language Centre, University College London
Professor Neil Wrigley
Professor of Geography, University of Southampton
Professor Lucia Zedner
Professor of Criminal Justice, Faculty of Law and Law Fellow, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford and Conjoint Professor, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales
2012 British Academy Corresponding Fellows
Professor Michael Allen
Distinguished Professor, Departments of English and Italian, UCLA
Professor Mary Carruthers
Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Literature, New York University
Professor Alain De Libera
Professor, University of Geneva, Chair of Medieval Philosophy.
Professor Elhanan Helpman
Galen L Stone Professor of International Trade, Harvard University
Professor Michel Jeanneret
Professeur Honoraire, Faculty of Letters, University of Geneva
Professor John Langbein
Sterling Professor of Law and Legal History, Yale
Professor Jean-Pierre Mahé
Membre de L’Institut de France
Professor W T J Mitchell
Gaylord Donnelly Distinguished Service Professor of English and Art History, University of Chicago
Professor Ian Morris
Jean and Rebecca Willard Professor of Classics; Professor of History, Stanford University
Professor Torsten Persson
Torsten and Ragnar Söderberg Chair in Economic Sciences, Institute for International Economic Studies, Sweden
Professor Denise Pumain
Professor in Geography, University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and Institut Universitaire de France
Professor John Scheid
Professor of Religion, Institutions and Society in Ancient Rome, Collège de France
Professor Michael Storper
Professor of Regional and International Development, UCLA
Professor Gerald Toomer
Professor Emeritus of the History of Mathematics, Brown University
Professor Bernard Wasserstein
Harriet and Ulrich E Meyer Professor of Modern European Jewish History, University of Chicago
2012 British Academy Honorary Fellows
Martin Rees
Baron Rees of Ludlow, OM, FRS, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge
Dame Fiona Reynolds DBE
Chief Executive, The National Trust