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.

2026 On 17 July 2026, the following were elected to the fellowship; 58 fellows, 32 international fellows, and 2 honorary fellows.

UK Fellows:

Professor Neil Adger, Professor of Human Geography, University of Exeter Professor Jo Applin, Walter H. Annenberg Professor in the History of Art, Courtauld Institute of Art Professor John Arnold, Professor of Medieval History, University of Cambridge Professor Manuel Barcia, Pro-Vice Chancellor for Global Engagement at the University of Bath Professor David Barnett, Professor of Theatre, University of York Professor Mia Bay, Paul Mellon Professor of American History, University of Cambridge Professor Matthew Bell, Professor of German and Comparative Literature, King’s College London Professor Sonia Bhalotra, Professor of Economics, University of Warwick Professor Katherine Brickell, Professor of Urban Studies and Associate Dean for Impact and Innovation, King’s College London Professor Jill Burke, Chair of Renaissance Visual and Material Culture, University of Edinburgh Professor Eamonn Carrabine, Professor of Sociology, University of Essex Professor Rebecca Cassidy, William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge Professor Chantal Conneller, Professor of Early Prehistory, Newcastle University Professor Adam Crawford FAcSS, Professor of Policing & Social Justice, University of York; Professor of Criminology & Criminal Justice, University of Leeds; Deputy Associate Dean for Research (Impact & Engagement), University of York; Co-Director of the ESRC Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre, Universities of York and Leeds Professor Nandini Das, Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture, University of Oxford, and Fellow of Exeter College, University of Oxford Professor Lorraine Dearden FAcSS, Professor of Economics and Social Statistics, University College London Professor Nicola Dibben, Professor of Music, University of Sheffield Professor Zoltan Dienes, Professor of Psychology, University of Sussex Professor Dimo Dimov, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, University of Bath Professor Karen Douglas, Professor of Social Psychology, University of Kent Professor Carolin Duttlinger, Professor of German Literature and Culture, University of Oxford, and Ockenden Fellow in German, Wadham College Oxford Professor Jane Falkingham FAcSS CBE, Director, ESRC Centre for Population Change, and Vice President (Engagement & International) at the University of Southampton Professor Elizabeth Fisher, Professor of Environmental Law, Faculty of Law and Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford Professor Dorian Fuller FLS FSA, Professor of Archaeobotany, University College London Professor Robert Gleave, Professor of Arabic Studies, University of Exeter Professor Susan Harrow, Ashley Watkins Chair of French Language and Literature, University of Bristol Professor Kirsty Hooper, Professor of Hispanic Studies, University of Warwick Professor Christopher Insole , Professor of Philosophical Theology and Ethics, Durham University Professor John Jackson, Emeritus Professor of Comparative Criminal Law & Procedure, University of Nottingham Professor Mark Jackson, Professor of the History of Medicine, University of Exeter Professor Will Jennings, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, School of Economic, Social and Political Sciences, University of Southampton and Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Southampton Professor Roshini Kempadoo, Media Artist and Photographer and Professor of Photography and Visual Culture at the University of Westminster Professor Anna Korhonen, Professor of Natural Language Processing, University of Cambridge Professor Miriam Leonard, Professor of Greek Literature and its Reception, University College London Professor Stephan Lewandowsky, Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Bristol Professor Morwenna Ludlow, Professor of Christian History and Theology, University of Exeter Professor Celia Lury, Professor at the Centre of Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick Professor Lutz Marten, Professor of General and African Linguistics, SOAS University of London Professor Benjamin Moll, Sir John Hicks Chair and Professor of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science Dr Miranda Morris, Independent Researcher Professor Mark Olssen, Emeritus Professor of Political Theory and Higher Education Policy, University of Surrey Professor Patricia Owens, Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford Professor Richard Pettigrew, Professor of Philosophy, University of Bristol Professor Lucia Prauscello, Senior Research Fellow, All Soul College, Oxford Professor Stephanie Rickard, Professor of Political Economy, London School of Economics Professor Joel Robbins, Sigrid Rausing Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge Professor Pamela Sammons PRSA, Professor (Emeritus) of Education, University of Oxford Professor Nicholas Shea, Professor of Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London Professor Jackie Stacey, Professor of Cultural Studies and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture, University of Manchester Professor Emma Tarlo, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London Professor Stephen Tierney KC (HON) FRSE, Professor of Constitutional Theory, Edinburgh School of Law, University of Edinburgh Professor Elizabeth Tyler, Professor of Medieval Literature, Department of English and Related Literature, University of York Professor Karin Wahl-Jorgensen FLSW, Professor, School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University Professor James Warren, Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Corpus Christi College Professor Jane Whittle, Professor of Economic and Social History, University of Exeter Professor James Williams, Professor of Modern French Literature and Film, Royal Holloway, University of London Professor Youngjin Yoo, Professor of Management, The London School of Economics and Political Science Professor Noam Yuchtman FREcon, Hayek Professor of Political Economy, Department of Management, London School of Economics and Political Science

International Fellows

Professor Lila Abu-Lughod, Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science, Department of Anthropology and Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender, Columbia University Professor Seema Alavi, Professor at the Department of History, Ashoka University Professor Alfredo J. Artiles, Lee L. Jack Professor of Education at Stanford University Professor Sandra Black, Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Texas at Austin Professor Antony Brown, Professor at the Tromsø University Museum, Arctic University of Norway Hassoum Ceesay ORG, Director General, National Centre for Arts and Culture, The Gambia Dr Brett Christophers, Professor at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research, Uppsala University Professor Deborah Cohen, Leopold Professor of History and Director at the Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, Northwestern University Dr Kimberlé Crenshaw, Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, and Distinguished Professor of Law and the Promise Institute Chair on Human Rights at UCLA School of Law Professor Joy Damousi AM FAHA FASSA, Dean of Arts and Director of the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University Professor Anne Duprat, Professor at Université de Picardie Jules Verne and Senior Member of Institut universitaire de France Professor Paula England, Dean of Social Science and Professor at New York University, Abu Dhabi Professor Judy Fudge FRSC, Professor Emeritus, McMaster University Dr Michele Gelfand, The John H Scully Professor in Cross-Cultural Management and Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Stanford Graduate School of Business; Professor of Psychology by courtesy at Stanford University Professor Haneda Masashi, Emeritus Professor, the University of Tokyo, President at the Toyota Foundation, and President, Mishima Kaiun Memorial Foundation Professor David R. M. Irving FAHA FRHistS, ICREA Research Professor in Musicology at the Institució Milà i Fontanals de Recerca en Humanitats, CSIC Professor Béatrice Longuenesse AAAS, Julius Silver Professor, Professor of Philosophy Emerita, New York University Professor John Ma, Professor of Classics, Columbia University Professor N. Gregory Mankiw, Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics, Harvard University Professor Anita McGahan, University Professor and George E. Connell Professor of Organisations and Society, University of Toronto Dr Mary Louise Pratt, Silver Professor Emerita, New York University and Olive H. Palmer Professor of Humanities, Emerita, Stanford University Professor Ronit Ricci, Sternberg-Tamir Chair in Comparative Cultures, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Professor Hartmut Rosa, Full Professor of Sociology and Social Theory at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena and Germany Director of the Max-Weber-Centre, University of Erfurt Professor Elinor Saiegh-Haddad, Full Professor, Bar-Ilan University Professor Salvatore Settis, Emeritus Professor of the History of Classical Art and Archaeology at the Scuola Normale Superiore Professor Robert Stam, University Professor (equivalent of Distinguished Professor) New York University Professor Chloë Starr, Professor of Asian Christianity and Theology, Yale University Professor Joshua Tenenbaum, Whitehead Professor of Computational Cognitive Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Lisa Wedeen, Mary R. Morton Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the College, The University of Chicago Professor James Q. Whitman, Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law, Yale University Professor Anders Winroth, Professor of History, University of Oslo Professor Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Courtney Sale Ross Professor of Globalization and Education and University Professor, New York University

Honorary Fellows

Dr Fiona Hill CMG FRSA, Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution and Chancellor at Durham University The Right Honourable Dame Siobhan Keegan DBE KC, Lady Chief Justice of Northern Ireland

2025 On 17 July 2025, the following were elected to the fellowship; 58 fellows, 30 international fellows, and 4 honorary fellows.

UK Fellows:

Professor Jeremy Adelman FBA, Professor and Director of the Global History Lab, University of Cambridge Professor Ian Apperly FBA, Professor of Cognition and Development, University of Birmingham Professor Chrisanthi Avgerou FBA, Professor of Information Systems, London School of Economics Professor Matthew Baerman FBA, Professorial Research Fellow, Surrey Morphology Group, University of Surrey Professor Anthony Bale FBA, Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English (1954), University of Cambridge; Professorial Fellow, Girton College, Cambridge Professor Rosalind Ballaster FBA, Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies and Professorial Fellow in English, Mansfield College, University of Oxford Reverend Professor John Behr FBA, Regius Chair of Humanity, University of Aberdeen Professor Alexander Betts FBA, Professor of Forced Migration and International Affairs, University of Oxford; Fellow, Brasenose College, Oxford; Pro-Vice-Chancellor for External Engagement Professor Gert Biesta FBA, Professor of Educational Theory and Pedagogy, The Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh; Professor of Public Education, The Centre for Public Education and Pedagogy, Maynooth University, Ireland