Professor Elizabeth Perry FBA
The history and politics of modern China, with special attention to traditions of rebellion and revolution and their influence on contemporary patterns of protest and governance
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2016
- Sections
- Africa, Asia and the Middle East
Current post
Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University, and Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Michael Cook FBA
The history of the Islamic world; the formation & development of traditional Islamic thought, & its implications in the modern world; Islamic thought, & its implications in the modern world; Islamic history in comparative perspective.
Professor Irina Nikolaeva FBA
General linguistics; linguistic diversity and linguistic typology; language change; Uralic, Altaic and Palaeosiberian languages and linguistics; documentation and description of endangered languages
Professor Hugh Kennedy FBA
The History and Archaeology of the early Islamic Middle-East, North Africa and Spain c.600-1000 AD
