Arts Prizes 2017-2018
2018
- Professor Peter Marshall from the Department of History has been awarded the Wolfson History Prize for his book "Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation." In his book, Professor Marshall argues that sixteenth-century England was a society neither desperate for nor allergic to change, but one open to ideas of "reform" in various competing guises. Read more...
- Dr Susannah Wilson from the School of Modern Languages and Cultures has received a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for her project entitled "Morphine and the Cultural Imagination in France, 1870-1930." Her research interests are framed by an interdisciplinary approach, and concern the areas of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French culture and literature. Read more...
- Professor Eric Csapo from the Department of Classics and Ancient History has received a British Academy Global Professorship for his "The Institutional History of the Ancient Theatre." He will complete two foundational volumes on the institutional history of the ancient theatre. The volumes will be a comprehensive re-collection and re-assessment of evidence for the structure, finance, organisation, growth and social impact of theatre in the first centuries of its existence. Read more...
- Dr Chris Bilton from the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies has received a Newton Advanced Fellowship for his project "The Social Impact of Narratives: Narrative Construction of Social Problems, Public Policy and Justice in Mexico." He will study the social impact of narratives by looking at their role in the construction of social problems in Mexico, the consequences they have on public policy and the population that shares them. Read more...
- Dr Tiago De Luca from Film and Television Studies has received a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship for his project entitled "Envisioning the World: Film, Media Culture and the Earth." The project will explore Earth as a figure and subject matter in audiovisual culture. It will contribute towards a radically more nuanced and historicised understanding of why we perceive the Earth the way we do, paving the way for new imaginings of the world. Read more...
- Dr Marta Celati from the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance has received a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellowship for her project entitled "The 'Mirror' of History. Prince and Tyrant in Italian Renaissance Literature." Her research investigates the process of definition and evolution of princely rule and tyranny in Italian Renaissance literature, focusing on the interplay between treatises and historical works. Read more...
- Dr Maria Pavlova from the School of Modern Languages and Cultures has been awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship to work on a research project entitled "The Renaissance Knight: War, Nobility and Virtue from Pulci to Ariosto, 1461-1532." Her project will reconstruct the moral values of the Italian nobility by bringing together a wide range of visual and textual sources, including a neglected body of chivalric texts. Read more...
- Dr Livia Lupi from History of Art has been awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship for her project “Painting Architecture in Early Renaissance Italy: Innovation and Persuasion at the Intersection of Artistic and Architectural Practice.” Her research focuses on the representation of architecture in Italian painting in the 14th and the 15th centuries. Read more...
- Dr Andrew Cooper from the Department of Philosophy has been awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship for his project entitled "The Road Not Taken: Kant and Organised Systems." The project investigates philosophical implications of recent work in the biology of developmental systems by examining its historical roots in 18th and 19th century thought. Read more...
- Dr Benjamin (Bink) Hallum from the Department of Classics and Ancient History has received a Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship for his project entitled "Alchemy, Medicine and Pharmacology in Medieval Islam: Rāzī's 12 Books." He will re-assemble, edit and translate the books to produce a fundamental resource to demonstrate the contribution of Greco-Arabic alchemy to medicine in the both the Islamic world and in Europe. Read more...
- Dr Mary Harrod from the School of Modern Languages has been been awarded a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award to run a series of academic/public events on the theme of "Imagining 'We' in the Age of 'I': Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture." Read more...
- Professor David Morley from the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (RSL) - one of UK’s most distinguished writers. Read more...
- Professor Peter Marshall from the Department of History has been named as a Fellow of the British Academy in recognition of his work on religious belief and practice in early modern Britain and Europe, particularly the cultural and political impact of the English Reformation. Read more...
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- Professor Jim Davis from Theatre and Performance Studies has been awarded the Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA) David Brady Prize for Outstanding Research for his monograph entitled "Comic Portraiture in Late-Georgian and Regency England" (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Read more...
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