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]
Fellowship of the British Academy (FBA) is an award granted by the British Academy to leading academics for their distinction in the humanities and social sciences. There are three kinds of fellowship:
Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at the time. Today, the humanities are more frequently contrasted with natural, and sometimes social sciences, as well as professional training.
The 2019 annual general meeting was held on 19 July 2019. Elected were 52 fellows, 20 corresponding fellows, and 4 honorary fellows. [2] [3]
Harriet Bulkeley, is a British geographer and academic. She is Professor of Geography at Durham University. Bulkeley is also a coordinator in the Naturvation project. Through her work at Durham University, Harriet is involved in the ReInvent-EU project, which aims to encourage decarbonisation in 4 key areas: plastic, steel, paper and meat and dairy. Her research largely explores the politics and processes surrounding environmental governance, as well as the management of municipal waste in the United Kingdom and the politics, specifically urban politics, of climate change.
Josep Call is a Spanish comparative psychologist specializing in primate cognition.
Sarah Anne Coakley is an English Anglican systematic theologian and philosopher of religion with interdisciplinary interests. She is an honorary professor at the Logos Institute, the University of St Andrews, after she stepped down as Norris–Hulse Professor of Divinity (2007–2018) at the University of Cambridge. She is also Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Australian Catholic University, both in Melbourne and in Rome.
Veena Das is the Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University. She is a well-known scholar in Indian anthropology, and one of the most frequently cited anthropologists. Her areas of theoretical specialization include the anthropology of violence, social suffering, and the state. Das has received multiple international awards including the Ander Retzius Gold Medal, delivered the prestigious Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture and was named a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Katherine Dunbabin is an archaeologist specialising in Roman art and Professor Emerita of Classics at McMaster University.
Stephen Jay Greenblatt is an American Shakespearean, literary historian, and author. He has served as the John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University since 2000. Greenblatt is the general editor of The Norton Shakespeare (2015) and the general editor and a contributor to The Norton Anthology of English Literature.
Michael Frayn, FRSL is an English playwright and novelist. He is best known as the author of the farce Noises Off and the dramas Copenhagen and Democracy. His novels, such as Towards the End of the Morning, Headlong and Spies, have also been critical and commercial successes, making him one of the handful of writers in the English language to succeed in both drama and prose fiction. He has also written philosophical works, such as The Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of the Universe (2006).
Margaret Olwen MacMillan is a Canadian historian and professor at the University of Oxford. She is former provost of Trinity College and professor of history at the University of Toronto and previously at Ryerson University. A leading expert on history and international relations, MacMillan is a commentator in the media.
The 2018 annual general meeting was held on 20 July 2018. Elected were 52 fellows, 20 corresponding fellows, and 4 honorary fellows: this was a record number of 76 new fellows. [4]
The 2017 annual general meeting was held on 21 July 2017. Elected were 42 fellows, 20 corresponding fellows, and 4 honorary fellows. [5]
The 2016 annual general meeting was held on 14 July 2016. Elected were 42 fellows, 20 corresponding fellows, and 4 honorary fellows. [6]
The following fellows of the British Academy were elected at the annual general meeting in 2015: [7] [8]
The following fellows of the British Academy were elected at the annual general meeting in 2014: [9] [10]
The following fellows of the British Academy were elected at the annual general meeting in 2013: [11]
The following fellows of the British Academy were elected at the annual general meeting in 2012: [12]
The following fellows of the British Academy were elected at the annual general meeting in 2011: [13]
The following fellows of the British Academy were elected at the annual general meeting in 2010: [14]
A Secular Humanist Declaration was an argument for and statement of support for democratic secular humanism. The document was issued in 1980 by the Council for Democratic and Secular Humanism (CODESH), now the Council for Secular Humanism (CSH). Compiled by Paul Kurtz, it is largely a restatement of the content of the American Humanist Association's 1973 Humanist Manifesto II, of which he was co-author with Edwin H. Wilson. Both Wilson and Kurtz had served as editors of The Humanist, from which Kurtz departed in 1979 and thereafter set about establishing his own movement and his own periodical. His Secular Humanist Declaration was the starting point for these enterprises.
Gregory Currie, FAHA is a British philosopher and academic. He is Professor of Philosophy at the University of York.
Sir Partha Sarathi Dasgupta, FRS, FBA, is the Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and Visiting Professor at the New College of the Humanities, London. He was born in Dhaka, present-day Bangladesh, then moved to present-day India, and is the son of the noted economist Amiya Kumar Dasgupta. He is married to Carol Dasgupta, who is a psychotherapist. His father-in-law was the Nobel Laureate James Meade.
Kenneth George "Ken" Binmore, is a British mathematician, economist, and game theorist. He is a Professor Emeritus of Economics at University College London (UCL) and a Visiting Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol.
Audrey Isabel Richards, CBE, FBA, was a pioneering British social anthropologist who worked mainly in sub-Saharan Africa.
Dame Henrietta Louise Moore, is a British social anthropologist. She is the director of the Institute for Global Prosperity at University College, London (UCL), part of the Bartlett, UCL's Faculty of the Built Environment.
Elizabeth Jane Mary Edwards, is a visual and historical anthropologist.
Dawn Chatty, is an American social anthropologist and academic, who specialises in the Middle East, nomadic pastoral tribes, and refugees. From 2010 to 2015, she was Professor of Anthropology and Forced Migration at the University of Oxford.
Sara Binzer Hobolt, FBA is a Danish political scientist, who specialises in European politics and electoral behaviour. She holds the Sutherland Chair in European Institutions at the London School of Economics and Political Science.