Professor James Ackerman FBA

Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
1978
Year of birth
1919
Year of death
2016
Honours
FBA

Current post

Kingsley Porter Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts, Harvard University

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Susanne Küchler FBA

The anthropology of material aesthetics, mathematics and memory; The nature of innovation and the cognitive work of images, taking insights from ethnographic research in Oceania to the laboratory context of materials science

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Professor Patrick Wright FBA

'Heritage' and the power of tradition in British culture since 1890; the cultural dimensions of international relations since 1945; place and belonging in relation to globalisation

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Professor Laura Tunbridge FBA

Cultural history of song, especially lieder; chamber music; opera studies; reception history

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