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British Academy Welcomes 59 New Fellows
18 Jul 2013
At its Annual General Meeting (18 July 2013), the British Academy elected 42 new Fellows from 18 different UK universities, each of them a highly distinguished academic, recognised for their outstanding research and work across the humanities and social sciences. The new Fellows span the full range of the Academy's subject areas from history to psychology, economics to law, literature to philosophy and languages to archaeology.
Lord Stern, new President of the British Academy, said: “The humanities and social sciences celebrate the study of what it means to be human and how we relate to the world around us. They can also help us tackle many of the challenges faced in this country and the world as a whole. Our new Fellows, from across the UK and world, are world-class experts in the humanities and social sciences and can play a vital role in sustaining the Academy’s activities – helping select researchers and research projects for funding support, contributing to policy reports and speaking at the Academy’s public events.”
The Academy also elected 15 new Corresponding Fellows from overseas universities. In addition, it elected Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws QC and Robert B Silvers as Honorary Fellows. Helena Kennedy is a barrister and human rights campaigner who has practised, written and taught on counter terrorism and human rights, civil liberties, women and children’s rights and on the interface between law and psychiatry. Robert B Silvers has been the Editor of the New York Review of Books for 50 years - since founding the magazine in 1963.
A full list of the new British Academy Fellows and their institutions appears below.
The British Academy New Fellows 2013
Professor Dominic Abrams
Professor of Social Psychology and Director of the Centre for the Study of Group Processes, University of Kent
Professor Roderick Beaton
Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature and Director of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London
Professor Sarah Birch
Chair of Comparative Politics, University of Glasgow
Professor Paul Boyle
Chief Executive, Economic and Social Research Council; President, Science Europe and Professor of Geography, University of St Andrews
Professor Michael Braddick
Professor of History and Pro-Vice-Chancellor, University of Sheffield
Professor Michael Bridge
Cassel Professor of Commercial Law, London School of Economics
Professor Stella Bruzzi
Professor of Film and Television Studies, University of Warwick
Professor Martin Butler
Professor of Renaissance Drama, University of Leeds
Professor Mary Dalrymple
Professor of Syntax, University of Oxford
Professor Hastings Donnan
Professor of Social Anthropology and Director of the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation and Social Justice, Queen’s University Belfast
Professor Stuart Elden
Professor of Political Geography, Durham University
Professor Katharine Ellis
Stanley Hugh Badock Professor of Music, University of Bristol
Professor David Fergusson
Professor of Divinity and Principal of New College, University of Edinburgh
Professor Eilís Ferran
Professor of Company and Securities Law & JM Keynes Fellow and Professorial Fellow of St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge
Professor John Gardner
Professor of Jurisprudence and Fellow of University College, University of Oxford
Professor Vincent Gillespie
J R R Tolkien Professor of English, University of Oxford
Professor Usha Goswami
Professor of Cognitive Developmental Neuroscience, Director of the Centre for Neuroscience in Education and Fellow of St John’s College, University of Cambridge
Professor John Hawthorne
Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy and Fellow of Magdalen College, University of Oxford; Visiting Professor, Princeton University
Professor Richard Hunter
Regius Professor of Greek and Fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge
Professor Ronald Hutton
Professor of History, University of Bristol
Professor Glynis Jones
Professor of Archaeology, University of Sheffield
Professor John Kerrigan
Professor of English 2000 and Fellow of St John’s College, University Cambridge
Professor Diana Knight
Professor of French, University of Nottingham
Professor Cécile Laborde
Professor of Political Theory and Director of the Legal and Political Theory Programme, University College London
Professor Julia Lee-Thorp
Professor of Archaeological Science, University of Oxford
Professor John Lowden
Professor of History of Art, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London
Professor Colin Mayer
Peter Moores Professor of Management Studies, Saïd Business School and Fellow of Wadham College, University of Oxford
Professor David Mosse
Professor of Social Anthropology & Head of Department, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Professor Kevin O’Rourke
Chichele Professor of Economic History and Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford
Professor Jenny Ozga
Professor of the Sociology of Education, University of Oxford
Professor Christopher Page
Professor of Medieval Music and Literature and Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge
Professor Lindsay Paterson
Professor of Education Policy, University of Edinburgh
Professor Lucrezia Reichlin
Professor of Economics, London Business School
Professor Hamid Sabourian
Professor of Economics and Game Theory, and Fellow of King’s College, University of Cambridge
Professor Joanne Scott
Professor of European Law, University College London
Professor Timothy Shallice
Emeritus Professor of Neuropsychology, University College London; Senior Professor, SISSA, Trieste
Professor David Soskice
School Professor of Political Science and Economics, London School of Economics
Professor Gareth Stedman Jones
Professor of the History of Ideas, Queen Mary, University of London; Director of the Centre for History and Economics and Fellow of King’s College, University of Cambridge
Professor Roel Sterckx
Joseph Needham Professor of Chinese History, Science and Civilization and Fellow of Clare College, University of Cambridge
Professor Hans van de Ven
Professor of Modern Chinese History, University of Cambridge
Professor Jane Wardle FMedSci
Professor of Clinical Psychology and Director, University College London
Professor Janet Watson
Chair in Language, University of Leeds
The British Academy Corresponding Fellows 2013
Professor Susan Alcock
Director Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Joukowsky Family Professor in Archaeology and Professor of Classics, Brown University
Professor Patrick Bolton
Barbara and David Zalaznick Professor of Business Finance and Economics, Columbia University
Professor Patricia Crone
Mellon Professor of Islamic Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Professor Aurora Egido
Professor of Spanish Literature, University of Zaragoza
Professor Ute Frevert
Director, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
Professor David Garland
Arthur T Vanderbilt Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology, New York University
Dr Leonardo López Luján
Senior researcher and Director of the Proyecto Templo Mayor, Museo del Templo Major, Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia
Professor Philip Pettit
L.S.Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values, Princeton University; Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Australian National University
Professor Beatriz Sarlo
Retired Professor of Argentine Literature, University of Buenos Aires and Consejo Nacional de S Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas.
Professor Robert Stalnaker
Laurance S Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Professor Shelley Taylor
Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles
Professor Gunther Teubner
Professor of Private Law and Legal Sociology (Emeritus), Principal Investigator at the Excellence Cluster Goethe-University Frankfurt
Professor Richard Wrangham
Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology, Harvard University
Professor Dr Wolfgang Prinz
Director Emeritus, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig
Professor Robert Young
Julius Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature, New York University
The British Academy Honorary Fellows 2013
Baroness Helena Kennedy of the Shaws QC, FRSA
Barrister and human rights campaigner
Mr Robert B Silvers
Editor and Founder of the New York Review of Books
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