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 Harri Englund FBA
African-language political and moral thought; the historical-linguistic translation of freedom, equality and human rights; the racial and humanitarian politics of Christian missions in 19th-century Africa
Professor Eleanor Robson FBA
History of literacy, numeracy and knowledge in ancient Middle Eastern cuneiform cultures; history and politics of archaeology and heritage in modern Iraq; open-access digital humanities approaches to cuneiform
Professor Rosemary Foot FBA
International Relations, with special reference to security studies in the Asia-Pacific, including US-China relations, human rights, Asian regional institutions, and East Asian regional governance
