List of fellows of the British Academy elected in the 2020s

The Fellowship of the British Academy consists of world-leading scholars and researchers in the humanities and social sciences. A varying number of fellows are elected each year in July at the Academy's annual general meeting.[1]

2024

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On 18 July 2024, the following were elected to the fellowship; 52 fellows, 30 international fellows, and 4 honorary fellows.[2]

Fellows
  • Professor Nava Ashraf, Professor of Economics, London School of Economics
  • Professor Subhabrata (Bobby) Banerjee, Professor of Sustainability, Bayes Business School, City, University of London
  • Professor Peter Boxall, Goldsmiths’ Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford
  • Professor Gordon Brown, Professor in Psychology, University of Warwick
  • Professor Stuart Carroll, Professor of Early Modern History, University of York
  • Professor Shadreck Chirikure, Edward Hall Professor of Archaeological Science, Director, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford
  • Professor Sara Cohen, James and Constance Alsop Chair in Music, University of Liverpool
  • Professor Tim Dalgleish, Programme Leader, Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge
  • Professor Anne Davies, Professor of Law and Public Policy, Faculty of Law and Brasenose College, University of Oxford
  • Professor Norman Doe KC, Professor of Law, Director of the Centre for Law and Religion, School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University
  • Professor Alex Edmans, Professor of Finance, London Business School
  • Professor Esther Eidinow, Professor of Ancient History, University of Bristol
  • Professor William Fitzgerald, Professor of Latin, King’s College London
  • Professor Maria Cristina Fumagalli, Professor, Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, University of Essex
  • Professor Katy Gardner, Professor of Anthropology, London School of Economics
  • Professor David Gellner, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford; Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford
  • Professor Alain George, I M Pei Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, Director, Khalili Research Centre, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford; Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford
  • Professor Sophie Gilliat-Ray OBE, FLSW, Professor of Religious Studies and Director, Islam-UK Centre, Cardiff University
  • Professor Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, Regius Professor of Political Science, University of Essex
  • Professor Daniel Goodley, Professor of Disability Studies and Education, iHuman and School of Education, University of Sheffield
  • Professor Toby Green, Professor of Precolonial and Lusophone African History and Culture, King’s College London
  • Professor Timothy Greenwood, Professor of History, University of St Andrews
  • Professor Daniel Harbour, Professor of the Cognitive Science of Language, Queen Mary University of London
  • Professor Tim Harper, Professor of the History of Southeast Asia, University of Cambridge
  • Professor Alvin Jackson FRSE, Hon MRIA, MAE, Sir Richard Lodge Professor of History, University of Edinburgh
  • Professor Liz James, Professor of Art History, University of Sussex
  • Professor David James FAcSS, FRSA, FHEA, Professor of Sociology of Education, Cardiff University
  • Professor Carey Jewitt, Professor of Technology and Learning, UCL Knowledge Lab, Department of Culture, Communication and Media, IOE, University College London
  • Professor Helen Kennedy, Professor of Digital Society, University of Sheffield
  • Professor Justin Lewis, Professor of Creative Economy, Centre for the Creative Economy, Cardiff University
  • Professor Rosalind Love, Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon, University of Cambridge
  • Professor Asifa Majid, Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Oxford; Fellow, St Hugh's College, Oxford
  • Professor David McCallam, Reader in French Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of Sheffield
  • Professor Nasar Meer FRSE, FAcSS, Professor of Social and Political Science, University of Glasgow
  • Professor Miriam Meyerhoff, Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford
  • Professor James Montgomery, Sir Thomas Adams’s Professor of Arabic, University of Cambridge
  • Professor Janet Montgomery, Professor of Bioarchaeology, Durham University
  • Professor Adrian Moore, Professor of Philosophy, University of Oxford; Fellow, St Hugh’s College, Oxford
  • Professor Lydia Morris, Professor of Sociology, University of Essex
  • Professor Rachael Mulheron KC (Hon), Professor of Tort Law and Civil Justice, School of Law, Queen Mary University of London
  • Professor Lucy O'Brien, Richard Wollheim Professor of Philosophy, University College London
  • Professor Elias Papaioannou, Professor of Economics, London Business School
  • Professor Philomen Probert, Professor of Classical Philology and Linguistics, University of Oxford; Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford
  • Professor Ricardo Reis, A W Phillips Professor of Economics, London School of Economics
  • Professor Jennifer Robinson, Professor of Human Geography, University College London
  • Professor Rebecca Sear, Professor and Director of the Centre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University
  • Professor Alison Shell, Professor of Early Modern Studies, Department of English, University College London
  • Canon Professor Michael Snape, Michael Ramsey Professor of Anglican Studies, Durham University
  • Professor Elisabeth van Houts, Emeritus Honorary Professor in European Medieval History, University of Cambridge; Life-Fellow, Emmanuel College, Cambridge
  • Professor Phiroze Vasunia, Professor of Greek, University College London
  • Professor Lea Ypi, Professor of Political Theory, London School of Economics and Political Science
  • Professor Ayşe Zarakol, Professor of International Relations, University of Cambridge; Fellow, Emmanuel College, Cambridge
International fellows
  • Professor Sunil Amrith, Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History, Yale University
  • Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah FRSL, Silver Professor of Philosophy and Law, New York University
  • Professor Richard Aslin, Senior Research Scientist, Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine; Senior Research Scientist, Department of Psychology, Yale University
  • Professor Mauricio Avendano, Associate Professor and Co-Director Health Economics and Policy Unit, University of Lausanne
  • Professor Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer, Distinguished Service Professor of Classics, The University of Chicago
  • Professor Lauren Benton, Barton M Biggs Professor of History and Professor of Law, Yale University
  • Professor Judith Carney, Distinguished Research Professor Emerita, Department of Geography, University of California Los Angeles
  • Professor David Chalmers, University Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science, New York University
  • Professor Joseph Chan, Distinguished Senior Research Fellow, Research Center for Humanities and Social Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
  • Professor Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Canada 150 Research Chair, Professor of Communication, Director of the Digital Democracies Institute, Simon Fraser University
  • Professor Eve V. Clark, Richard W Lyman Professor Emerita, Professor of Linguistics and Symbolic Systems, Stanford University
  • Professor Janet Currie, Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University
  • Professor Steven Feld, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Emeritus, University of New Mexico
  • Professor Gerd Gigerenzer, Director Emeritus, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin; Director, Harding Center for Risk Literacy, University of Potsdam, and Vice-President European Research Council (ERC)
  • Professor Robert Grant, SDA Professor of Strategic and Entrepreneurial Management Emeritus, Bocconi University
  • Professor Saidiya Hartman, University Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
  • Professor Ayhan Kaya, Director, European Institute, Director, Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, Senior Lecturer, Istanbul Bilgi University
  • Professor Thomas Keymer, Chancellor Henry N R Jackman University Professor of English, University of Toronto
  • Professor Catharine MacKinnon, Elizabeth A Long Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School; The James Barr Ames Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
  • Professor Koji Mizoguchi FSA, Professor, Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University
  • Professor Zhenzhao Nie MAE, Yunshan Chair Professor, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies; Emeritus Professor, Zhejiang University
  • Professor Pippa Norris, Paul F McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics, HKS and Faculty Affiliate in the Government Department, Harvard Kennedy School
  • Professor Francis B. Nyamnjoh, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cape Town
  • Professor Susan O'Connor, Distinguished Professor, School of Culture, History and Language, Australian National University
  • Professor Jennifer Roberts, Drew Gilpin Faust Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University
  • Professor Kirsi Salonen, Professor of Medieval History, Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion, University of Bergen
  • Professor Petra Sijpesteijn, Professor of Arabic, Leiden University
  • Professor Catherine E. Snow, John and Elisabeth Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
  • Professor Guy G. Stroumsa, Martin Buber Professor Emeritus of Comparative Religion, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Professor Emeritus of the Study of the Abrahamic Religions, University of Oxford
  • Professor David Der-wei Wang, Edward C Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature and Comparative Literature, Harvard University
Honorary fellows
  • Ms Patricia Barker CBE, FRSL, British writer and novelist
  • Professor Dame Sonia Boyce DBE, OBE, RA, Professor of Black Art and Design, University of the Arts London
  • Sir Isaac Julien CBE, RA, Filmmaker and installation artist; Distinguished Professor of the Arts, University of California Santa Cruz
  • Mr Fergal Keane OBE, Special Correspondent, BBC News

2023

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On 21 July 2023, the following were elected to the fellowship; 52 fellows, 30 corresponding fellows, and 4 honorary fellows.[3]

Fellows
Corresponding fellows
  • Professor Mats Alvesson, Professor of Business Administration, Lund University
  • Professor Aharon Barak, Professor of Commercial Law, Reichman University
  • Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
  • Judge Hilary Charlesworth, Professor of International Law, University of Melbourne; Judge, International Court of Justice, The Hague
  • Professor Ruth DeFries, University Professor and Denning Family Professor of Sustainable Development, Columbia University
  • Professor John Dryzek, Distinguished Professor, Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, University of Canberra
  • Professor Kathy Eden, Chavkin Family Professor of English and Professor of Classics, Columbia University
  • Professor Finbarr Barry Flood, Founder-director of Silsila, Center for Material Histories; William R Kenan, Jr Professor of the Humanities, Institute of Fine Arts and Department of Art History, New York University
  • Professor Emily Greenwood, Professor of the Classics and Comparative Literature, Harvard University
  • Professor Kris Gutiérrez, Carol Liu Professor of Education and Associate Dean of the School of Education, University of California, Berkeley
  • Professor Michael Hogg, Professor of Social Psychology, Claremont Graduate University
  • Professor Salima Ikram, Distinguished University Professor of Egyptology, American University in Cairo
  • Professor Rahel Jaeggi, Professor of Social and Political Philosophy, Humboldt University, Berlin
  • Professor Peggy Kamuf, Professor Emerita of French and Comparative Literature, University of Southern California
  • Professor Ayesha Kidwai, Professor, Centre for Linguistics, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
  • Professor Wolfgang Künne, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Hamburg
  • Professor Adam Lefstein, Morton L Mandel Director, Seymour Fox School of Education, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • Professor Achille Mbembe, Research Professor in History and Politics, Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER), University of the Witwatersrand
  • Professor Christine Moorman, T Austin Finch Sr Professor of Business Administrationm Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
  • Professor Stephen Morris, Peter A Diamond Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Professor Fred Moten, Professor, Department of Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
  • Professor Laïla Nehmé, Senior Research Fellow, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
  • Professor Jane Ohlmeyer, Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History (1762), Trinity College Dublin
  • Professor Sherry Ortner, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Anthropology, University of California
  • Professor Russell Poldrack, Albert Ray Lang Professor of Psychology, Stanford University
  • Professor Sabine Schmidtke, Professor of Islamic Intellectual History, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
  • Professor Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, Harvard University
  • Professor Margaret Slade, Professor Emeritus, Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia
  • Professor Karl Ubl, Professor of Medieval History, University of Cologne
  • Professor Alison Wylie, Canada Research Chair and Professor of Philosophy, University of British Columbia
Honorary fellows
  • Sir John Akomfrah, film-maker, artist and writer
  • Professor Abdulrazak Gurnah, Emeritus Professor of English and Postcolonial Literatures, University of Kent
  • Professor Jackie Kay, Professor of Creative Writing, University of Salford; Cultural Fellow, Glasgow Caledonian University
  • Professor Philippe Sands, Professor of Public Understanding of Law, University College London

2022

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On 22 July 2022, the following were elected to the fellowship; 52 fellows, 29 corresponding fellows, and 4 honorary fellows.[4]

Fellows
Corresponding fellows
Honorary fellows
  • Professor Dame Anne Johnson, Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Co-Director UCL Health of the Public; President, UK Academy of Medical Sciences
  • Bronwen Maddox, Director, Institute for Government; incoming Director, Chatham House
  • Professor David Olusoga, Professor of Public History, University of Manchester
  • Professor Benjamin Zephaniah, Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing, Brunel University; Visiting Professor, De Montfort University

2021

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On 22 July 2021, the following were elected to the fellowship; 84 fellows, 29 corresponding fellows, and 3 honorary fellows.[5]

Fellows
Corresponding fellows
Honorary fellows

2020

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On 24 July 2020, the following were elected to the fellowship; 52 fellows, 30 corresponding fellows, and 4 honorary fellows.[6]

Fellows
Corresponding fellows
Honorary Fellows
  • Robin Jackson CBE, Former Chief Executive of the British Academy
  • Bridget Kendall MBE, Journalist, Diplomatic Correspondent, University of Cambridge
  • Mary Robinson, Adjunct Professor of Climate Justice and Former President of the Republic of Ireland, Trinity College Dublin
  • Gary Younge FAcSS, Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester

References

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  1. ^ "About the British Academy". British Academy. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
  2. ^ "The British Academy welcomes 86 new Fellows in 2024". The British Academy. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
  3. ^ "The British Academy welcomes 86 new Fellows showcasing the breadth and depth of humanities and social sciences research". The British Academy. 21 July 2023. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
  4. ^ "Record number of women elected to the British Academy". The British Academy. 22 July 2022. Archived from the original on 12 August 2022. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
  5. ^ "The British Academy elects 84 new Fellows recognising outstanding achievement in the humanities and social sciences". The British Academy. 23 July 2021. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
  6. ^ "The British Academy welcomes 86 new Fellows from across the humanities and social sciences". The British Academy. 24 July 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2020.