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.

2023

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

Fellows

• Professor Louise Amoore, Durham University
• Professor Clare Anderson, Leicester Institute for Advanced Studies
• Professor Louise Archer, University College London
• Professor Helen Beebee, University of Leeds
• Professor Robert Bickers, University of Bristol
• Professor Wendy Carlin, University College London
• Professor Emilios Christodoulidis, University of Glasgow
• Professor Katherine Clarke, University of Oxford
• Professor Neta Crawford, University of Oxford
• Professor Mark Crinson, Birkbeck, University of London
• Professor Jonathan Cross, University of Oxford
• Professor Mark Edwards, University of Oxford
• Professor Georgina Endfield, University of Liverpool
• Professor Saul Estrin, London School of Economics
• Professor Annabelle Gawer, University of Surrey
• Professor Rosalind Gill, City, University of London
• Professor Laura Gowing, King's College, London
• Professor Pekka Hämäläinen, University of Oxford
• Professor Helena Hamerow, University of Oxford
• Professor Nicholas Harrison, King's College London
• Professor Kate Hunt, University of Stirling
• Professor Timothy Insoll, University of Exeter
• Professor Peter John, King's College London
• Professor Dafydd Johnston, University of Wales Trinity St David
• Professor Ananya Jahanara Kabir, King's College London
• Professor Tobias Kelly, University of Edinburgh
• Professor Elizabeth Lambourn, De Montfort University
• Professor Simon Marginson, University of Oxford
• Professor Susan Marks, London School of Economics
• Professor Sharon Monteith, Nottingham Trent University
• Professor Debra Myhill, University of Exeter
• Professor Lúcia Nagib, University of Reading
• Professor Kate Nation, University of Oxford
• Professor David Nelken, King's College London
• Professor David Owen, University of Southampton
• Professor Martin Pickering, University of Edinburgh
• Professor Nicholas Pidgeon, Cardiff University
• Professor Jaideep Prabhu, University of Cambridge
• Professor Tina K. Ramnarine, Royal Holloway, University of London
• Professor Jennifer Richards, Newcastle University
• Professor Ian Rutherford, University of Reading
• Professor Susie Scott, University of Sussex
• Professor Devyani Sharma, Queen Mary University of London
• Professor Nicolai Sinai, University of Oxford
• Professor Sujit Sivasundaram, University of Cambridge
• Professor John Skorupski, University of St Andrews
• Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge, University of Birmingham
• Professor Jane Stuart-Smith, University of Glasgow
• Professor Patrick Sturgis, London School of Economics
• Professor Daniel Wakelin, University of Oxford
• Professor Frank Windmeijer, University of Oxford
• Professor Jonathan Wolff, University of Oxford

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

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

Fellows

• Professor David M. Anderson, University of Warwick
• Professor Susan Banducci, University of Exeter
• Professor Richard Bellamy, University College London
• Professor Barbara Bombi, University of Kent
• Professor Benjamin Bowling, King's College London
• Professor Richard Bradley, London School of Economics and Political Science
• Professor Theresa Buckland, University of Roehampton
• Professor Simon Burgess, University of Bristol
• Professor Quassim Cassam, University of Warwick
• Professor Virginia Cox, Trinity College, Cambridge
• Professor Jacqueline Coyle-Shapiro, London School of Economics and Political Science
• Professor Daniel Freeman, University of Oxford
• Dr Melanie Giles FSA, University of Manchester
• Professor Simon Gilson, University of Oxford and Magdalen College, Oxford
• Professor Lucy Green, Institute of Education, University College London
• Professor Edith Hall, University of Durham
• Professor Penny Harvey, University of Manchester
• Professor Rik Henson, University of Cambridge
• Professor Pat Hudson, Cardiff University
• Professor Cristina Iannelli, University of Edinburgh
• Professor Ian Jewitt, Nuffield College, Oxford
• Professor Andrew Jordan, University of East Anglia
• Professor Heonik Kwon, Trinity College, Cambridge
• Professor Anna Lawson, University of Leeds
• Professor Sally Maitlis, University of Oxford
• Professor Robin Mansell FAcSS, London School of Economics and Political Science
• Professor Nicola Miller, University College London
• Professor Anthony Milton, University of Sheffield
• Professor Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee, Warwick University
• Professor Henry Overman, London School of Economics
• Professor Hilary Owen, University of Oxford and University of Manchester
• Professor Andrew Peacock FSA, University of St Andrews
• Professor Cathy Price FRS, FMedSci, University College London
• Professor Rebecca Probert, University of Exeter
• Professor Jonathan Rigg, University of Bristol
• Professor Eleanor Robson, University College London
• Professor Kathryn M. Rudy FRSE, University of St Andrews
• Professor Valerie Rumbold, University of Birmingham
• Professor Monika Schmid, University of York
• Professor Uta Schönberg, University College London
• Professor Marie Louise Stig Sørensen FSA, University of Cambridge
• Professor Michael Squire, King's College London
• Professor Catherine Steel, University of Glasgow
• Professor David Storey OBE, University of Sussex Business School
• Revd Professor John Swinton FRSE, RMN, RNMD, University of Aberdeen
• Professor Sylvia Walby OBE, FAcSS, FRSA, City, University of London
• Professor David Willis, University of Oxford
• Professor Jane Wills, University of Exeter
• Professor Emma Wilson, University of Cambridge
• Professor Andrew Wood FRHS, Durham University
• Professor Linda Woodhead MBE, King's College, London
• Professor Mark Wynn, University of Oxford.

Corresponding fellows

• Professor Rustom Bharucha, Jawaharlal Nehru University
• Professor Timothy Brook, University of British Columbia
• Professor Linda Chisholm, University of Johannesburg
• Professor Daniel Chua, The University of Hong Kong
• Professor Dr Irene de Jong, University of Amsterdam
• Professor Dr Mayke de Jong, Utrecht University
• Professor Dr Mamadou Diawara, Goethe University of Frankfurt
• Professor Jennifer Eberhardt, Stanford University
• Professor Barry Eichengreen, University of California, Berkeley
• Professor Suraiya Faroqhi, Ibn Haldun University
• Professor Simon Gikandi, Princeton University
• Professor Andre Gingrich, Austrian Academy of Sciences
• Professor Evelyn Goh, The Australian National University
• Professor Sari Hanafi, American University of Beirut
• Professor Mireille Hildebrandt, Vrije Universiteit and Radboud University
• Professor Victoria Kahn, University of California, Berkeley
• Professor Dr Pauline Kleingeld, University of Groningen
• Professor Ann Langley FRSC, HEC Montréal and Warwick Business School
• Professor Margaret Levi, Stanford University
• Professor Diana Liverman, University of Arizona
• Professor Deborah Mayo, Virginia Tech
• Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu, Princeton University
• Professor Shanti Pappu, Sharma Centre for Heritage Education and Krea University
• Professor Daniel Potts, New York University
• Professor Wlodek Rabinowicz, Lund University
• Professor John Rickford, Stanford University
• Professor Issa Shivji, University of Dar-Es-Salaam
• Professor Kathryn Tanner, Yale University Divinity School
• Professor Amy Stuart Wells, Columbia University.

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

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

Fellows

• Professor Laura Bear, London School of Economics and Political Science
• Professor Duncan Bell, University of Cambridge
• Professor Jean-Pierre BenoÎt, London Business School
• Professor Catherine Boone, London School of Economics and Political Science
• Professor Timothy T. Clark, British Museum
• Professor Joanne Conaghan, FAcSS, University of Bristol
• Professor Davina Cooper, King's College London
• Professor Julia Crick, King's College London
• Professor David Edgerton, King's College London
• Professor Catharine Edwards, University of London
• Professor Adrian Favell, University of Leeds
• Professor Charles Forsdick, University of Liverpool
• Professor Becky Francis, The Education Endowment Foundation
• Professor Sarah Franklin, FRSB, FAcSS, University of Cambridge
• Professor Julian Franks, London Business School
• Professor Anne Gerritsen, University of Warwick
• Professor David Gillborn, FAcSS, FRSA, University of Birmingham
• Professor Elaine Graham, University of Chester
• Professor Andrew Hadfield, University of Sussex
• Professor John Haldon, University of Birmingham
• Professor Anne Haour, University of East Anglia
• Professor Vernon Henderson, London School of Economics and Political Science
• Professor David Hesmondhalgh, University of Leeds
• Professor Ben Highmore, University of Sussex
• Professor Anders Holmberg, Newcastle University
• Professor Richard Holton, University of Cambridge
• Professor Gregory Hutchinson, University of Oxford
• Professor David Knights, Lancaster University
• Professor Susanne Kord, University College London
• Professor Jouni Kuha, London School of Economics and Political Science
• Professor Li Wei, FAcSS, MAE, University College London
• Professor Samuel Lieu, FAHA, FRSN, FHKAH (Hon), FSA, FRHistS, University of Cambridge
• Professor Alison Light, University of Oxford
• Professor Javed Majeed, King's College London
• Professor Roger Matthews, University of Reading
• Professor Robert J. Mayhew, University of Bristol
• Professor Susan Michie, University College London
• Professor Sarah Nettleton, University of York
• Professor Barbara Petrongolo, University of Oxford
• Professor Andrew Pettegree, University of St Andrews
• Professor Dorothy Price, University of Bristol
• Professor Shirin Rai, FAcSS, University of Warwick
• Professor Paul Roberts, University of Nottingham
• Professor Mari Sako, University of Oxford
• Professor Andrew Steptoe, FMedSci, University College London
• Professor Sacha Stern, University College London
• Professor Helen Steward, University of Leeds
• Professor Galin Tihanov, Queen Mary University of London
• Professor Ianthi Tsimpli, University of Cambridge
• Professor Laura Tunbridge, University of Oxford
• Professor Peter Tymms, University of Durham
• Professor Amanda Vickery, Queen Mary University of London.

Corresponding fellows

• Professor Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Professor Aleida Assmann, University of Konstanz
• Professor David Avrom Bell, Princeton University
• Professor Sukanta Chaudhuri, Jadavpur University
• Professor Eveline Crone, Leiden University
• Professor Barbara Czarniawska, University of Gothenburg
• Professor John Dillon, Trinity College Dublin
• Professor David Dyzenhaus, University of Toronto
• Professor Katalin É. Kiss, Hungarian Research Center for Linguistics
• Professor Susanna Elm, University of California Berkeley
• Professor Marcella Frangipane, Sapienza University of Rome
• Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr, Harvard University
• Professor Katherine Gibson, Western Sydney University
• Professor Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard University
• Professor Sergey Ivanov, National Research University, Higher Economic School, Moscow
• Professor Sarah Kenderdine, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
• Professor Philip Kitcher, Columbia University
• Professor Gloria Ladson-Billings, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Professor Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Princeton University; Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi
• Professor Kobena Mercer, Bard College
• Professor Wanda J. Orlikowski, MIT Sloan School of Management
• Professor Şevket Pamuk, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul
• Professor Adam Przeworski, New York University
• Professor Xinjiang Rong, Peking University
• Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University
• Professor Stefan Vogenauer, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Frankfurt
• Professor Elżbieta Witkowska-Zaremba, Institute of Arts, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Professor Brenda Yeoh, National University of Singapore
• Professor Barbie Zelizer, University of Pennsylvania

Honorary fellows

• Professor Simon Armitage CBE, FRSL, University of Leeds
• Baroness Minouche Shafik, London School of Economics and Political Science
• Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation

2020

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

Fellows

• Anna Sapir Abulafia, University of Oxford
• David Adger, Queen Mary University of London
• Madawi John M. G. Barclayl-Rasheed, London School of Economics
• Charles Baden-Fuller, City University
• John Barclay, Durham University
• Catherine Barnard, University of Cambridge
• Ian Bateman, University of Exeter
• Gurminder Bhambra, University of Sussex
• Michael Billig, University of Loughborough
• Dame Sue Black, Lancaster University
• Amy Bogaard, University of Oxford
• Colin Burrow, University of Oxford
• Martin Carver, University of York
• Martin Clayton, Durham University
• Ursula Coope, University of Oxford
• Giancarlo Corsetti, University of Cambridge
• Patrick Dunleavy, London School of Economics
• Rebecca Earle, University of Warwick
• Khaled Fahmy, University of Cambridge
• Paul Fiddes, University of Oxford
• Regenia Gagnier, University of Exeter
• Mark Harrison, University of Warwick
• Katherine Hawley, University of St Andrews
• Richard Hyman, London School of Economics
• Paula Jarzabkowski, City University
• Judith Jesch, University of Nottingham
• Stathis Kalyvas, University of Oxford
• Daniel Karlin, University of Bristol
• Kieran McEvoy, Queen's University, Belfast
• James Nazroo, University of Manchester
• Polly O'Hanlon, University of Oxford
• Andrew Pettegree, University of St Andrews
• Andrew Pickles, King's College London
• Christopher Pinney, University College London
• Sarah A. Radcliffe, University of Cambridge
• Rick Rawlings, University College London
• Nikolas Rose, King's College London
• Meg Russell, University College London
• James Secord, University of Cambridge
• Constantine Sedikides, University of Southampton
• Simon Shepherd, Central School of Speech and Drama
• Antonella Sorace, University of Edinburgh
• Penny Summerfield, University of Manchester
• Kathy Sylva, University of Oxford (Jesus College)
• Rosalind Thomas, University of Oxford
• Isabel Torres, Queen's University Belfast
• Elaine Unterhalter, University College London
• Caroline van Eck, University of Cambridge
• Essi Viding, University College London
• Timothy Whitmarsh, University of Cambridge
• Andreas Willi, University of Oxford
• Clair Wills, University of Cambridge
• Christopher Woolgar, University of Southampton

Corresponding fellows

• Elizabeth S. Anderson, University of Michigan
• Nicole Bériou, Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes
• Homi K. Bhabha, Harvard University
• Bea Cantillon, University of Antwerp
• Kathleen Coleman, Harvard University
• Jonathan Culler, Cornell University
• Anne Cutler, University of Western Sydney
• Joan DeJean, University of Pennsylvania
• Bénédicte Fauvarque-Cosson, Conseillère d'Etat
• Amy Finkelstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Rainer Forst, Goethe-University
• Jan-Eric Gustafsson, University of Gothenburg
• Alice Harris, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
• Caroline Hoxby, Stanford University
• Sheila Jasanoff, Harvard University
• Geoffrey Jones, Harvard University
• Thomas Kaufmann, University of Göttingen
• Kristian Kristiansen, University of Gothenburg
• Ngaire Naffine, University of Adelaide
• Gülru Necipoğlu, Harvard University
• Charles A. Nelson III, Harvard University
• Jamie Peck, University of British Columbia
• Susan Pedersen, University of Columbia
• Thomas Piketty, Paris School of Economics; EHESS
• Sheldon Pollock, Columbia University
• Walter W. Powell, Stanford University
• Frederick Schauer, University of Virginia Law School
• David Dean Shulman, University Jerusalem
• Kathryn Sikkink, Harvard Kennedy School
• Elliott Sober, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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