Professor James Montgomery FBA
Classical Arabic literature, literary translation, literary history, history of ideas.
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2024
- Honours
- FBA
- Sections
- Africa, Asia and the Middle East
Current post
University of Cambridge Sir Thomas Adams’s Professor of Arabic
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Ayhan Kaya FBA
The state and society relations in Europe since the late-20th century; majority and minority relations in Europe; migration-refugee studies; studies on neoliberal forms of governmentality: nationalism, multiculturalism, populism, Islamophobism
Dr James McMullen FBA
Oriental and African Studies East Asia Japan History of a specific country Japan
Professor Rosalind (Polly) O’Hanlon FBA
The early modern and colonial history of India; histories of empire, with particular reference to caste and gender; problems in intellectual history and historical methodology in the postcolonial world; history, language and culture of Maharashtra
