Twelve academics from the University of Cambridge have been made Fellows of the prestigious British Academy for the humanities and social science
They are among 92 distinguished scholars to be elected to the fellowship in recognition of their work in fields ranging from medieval history to international relations.
The Cambridge academics made Fellows of the Academy this year are:
Professor Jeremy Adelman (Faculty of History; Global History Lab; Darwin College)
Professor Anthony Bale (Faculty of English; Girton College)
Professor Annabel Brett (Faculty of History; Gonville and Caius College)
Professor Hasok Chang (Dept. of History and Philosophy of Science; Clare Hall)
Professor Jennifer Howard-Grenville (Cambridge Judge Business School; Trinity Hall)
Professor Barak Kushner (Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies; Corpus Christi College)
Professor Marta Mirazón Lahr (Dept. of Archaeology, Clare College)
Professor Yael Navaro (Dept. of Social Anthropology; Newnham College)
Professor Joanna Page (Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics; Centre of Latin American Studies; Robinson College)
Professor Clare Pettitt (Faculty of English; Emmanuel College)
Professor Diane Reay (Faculty of Education)
Professor John Robb (Dept. of Archaeology; Peterhouse)
Founded in 1902, the British Academy is the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences. It is a Fellowship consisting of over 1700 of the leading minds in these subjects from the UK and overseas.
Current Fellows include the classicist Professor Dame Mary Beard, the historian Professor Sir Simon Schama and philosopher Professor Baroness Onora O’Neill, while previous Fellows include Dame Frances Yates, Sir Winston Churchill, Seamus Heaney and Beatrice Webb. The Academy is also a funder of both national and international research, as well as a forum for debate and public engagement.
In 2025, a total of 58 UK Fellows, 30 International Fellows and four Honorary Fellows have been elected to the British Academy Fellowship.