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Arts Prizes and Fellowships 2021-2022

2022

  • Dr Mandy Sadan from Global Sustainable Development and she has recently been awarded a Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust for her project 'Flavour in the Making of Modern Britain'. The project will explore population-level changes in flavour preference, the emergence of the new flavours and ingredients technological developments and the chemistry of flavour. Read more...

2021

  • Professor Paul Smith from History of Art has been awarded a Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust. Entitled "Unfolding vision: Cezanne’s personal way of seeing", the project will aim to explain a range of ‘distortions’ characteristic of Cézanne’s paintings by drawing on recent developments in the psychology of perception. It will show how Cezanne’s unusual way of seeing allowed him to capture how vision unravels, or unfolds through time. Read more...

  • Professor Alison Ribeiro de Menezes from the School of Modern Languages and Cultures has been awarded an AHRC Fellowship for her project entitled "Voices of Humanitarianism: British Responses to Refugees from Chile." Through her Fellowship, she will explore the plight of Chilean refugees who fled the country after the military coup of September 1973, when the Chilean Armed Forces overthrew Salvador Allende's government. Read more...

  • Dr Thomas Pert will join the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance to undertake a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship for his project entitled "The Refugee Experience in the Thirty Years' War." Dr Pert will focus on the experiences of predominantly rural refugees in the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648). By using a wealth of primary source materials, he will address a long-overlooked aspect of the war and shed new light on the relationship between refugees, communities, and the emerging modern states. Read more...

  • Dr Pedzisai Maedza from the Department of Theatre and Performance Studies has been awarded a Newton International Fellowship to explore how the history and memory of the 1904-1908 German-Herero war and its aftermath have been remembered and configured through cultural practices and performance. He will focus on how arts and culture can advance debates on unacknowledged genocide memorialisation. Read more...

  • Dr Andrew Burchell from the Department of History has been awarded a Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship for his project "The Child’s Speech: Speech therapy, stammering and activism in Britain, c.1906-2000." The project follows the interlinked development of speech therapy in Britain and activism by people who stammer: from early-twentieth-century experiments in local therapy provision to the founding of the British Stammering Association in 1978. Read more...

  • Professor Helen Wheatley, Director of the Centre of Television Histories, has won the British Association for Film, Television and Screen Studies Award (BAFTSS) for Journal Article of the Year for her article entitled "Haunted Television: Trauma and the Specter in the Archive" in the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. Read more...
  • Dr Caroline Petit from the Department of Classics and Ancient History has been awarded has awarded the prestigious Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The award recognises her excellent academic achievements, and she will be invited to carry out a new research project of her choosing with colleagues in Germany. Dr Petit’s research interests lie in the textual transmission, translation and interpretation of ancient medical texts. Read more...

  • Professor Charlotte Brunsdon from the Department of Film and Television Studies has been elected as a Fellow of the British Academy. Her books include Television Cities (2018), Law and Order (2011), London in Cinema (2007) and The Feminist, the Housewife and the Soap Opera (2000). Read more...
  • Dr David Grundy from the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies has received a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship for his project “Never by Itself Alone: Sexual Poetics in San Francisco & Boston, 1944-Present.” His research will focus on the history of gay poetry in San Francisco and Boston from 1944 to the present. Extending from the 1950s through to Stonewall and the AIDS crisis, it will provide a reassessment of literary movements of historical and contemporary relevance. Read more...
  • Dr Giovanna Laterza from the Department of Classics and Ancient History has received a Newton International Fellowship for her project entitled "Material Worlds: Making Knowledge in Vitruvius' De Architectura." One of the most significant manifestations of the Augustan Revolution was a radical "epistemic shift", a fundamental change in the conceptualisation of knowledge. Her project will focus on material representations by which Vitruvius' 'On Architecture' depicts knowledge and cognitive processes. Read more...
  • Dr Hannah Boast from the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies has received a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship for a project entitled "Water Crisis and World Literature." Dr Boast will analyse literary works from countries experiencing water crisis to explore how literature registers or resists dominant ways of managing and imagining water, both reflecting the water crisis and imagining a way out of it. Read more...
  • Dr Imogen Peck from the Department of History has been awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship. Dr Peck will undertake the first dedicated study of annotations inscribed in almanacs - annual publications listing events in the forthcoming year - in Britain and North America during the early modern period. Read more...
  • Dr Justin Tackett from the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies has received a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship for a project entitled "Hearing Pictures: Poetics, Intertitles, and the Afterlives of Silent Film." Dr Tackett will develop the first comprehensive poetics of silent film in the period of 1880-1930. He will explore how everyday practices of reading, memorizing, and performing nineteenth-century poetry guided film’s development. Read more...
  • Professor Mark Knights from the Department of History has received a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for his project entitled "Corruption and the Abuse of Office in Britain and its Empire, c.1600-c.1850." His research focuses on political culture in early modern Britain and its empire - particularly corruption in Britain and its empire, the integration of political and social history, the nature of public discourse, the role of print, and the interaction of politics, literature and ideas. Read more...
  • Dr Micaela Canopoli from the Department of Classics and Ancient History has received a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship for her project entitled "The Sacred Landscape of Attica Under Roman Rule (1st cent. BC - 4th cent AD)." The research project will analyse the characteristics of Attic religious sites under Roman rule between the first century BC and the fourth century AD. Read more...
  • Professor Nadine Holdsworth from Theatre and Performance Studies has been awarded the Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA) David Brady Prize for Outstanding Research for her book entitled "The Ecologies of Amateur Theatre" (Palgrave, 2018), which was co-written with Professor Helen Nicholson (Royal Holloway, University of London) and Professor Jane Milling (University of Exeter). Read more...
  • The School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Cultures will hosts three of the eleven 2019 Leverhulme Early Career Fellows announced by the University. The researchers awarded Early Career Fellowships in the School are Dr Kate Moffat, Dr Julia Peetz and Dr Bethany Rex. Read more... 
  • Dr Shrikant Botre from the Department of History has received a Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship for his project entitled "The invention of vegetarian India: Marathi dietary politics, 1900-1960." He will analyse early 20th century popular western Indian (Marathi) nutrition literature on meat, milk, fasting and a balanced diet, and explore the complex interrelationships that connect foods with social orders in India. Read more...
  • Dr Shrikant Botre from the Department of History has been awarded a Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship for a project entitled The invention of vegetarian India: Marathi dietary politics, 1900–1960. He will analyse the early 20th century popular western Indian (Marathi) nutrition literature on meat, milk, fasting and a balanced diet. He will explore the country's complex interrelationships that historically connect food with social orders. Read more...
  • Dr Timo Schrader from the Department of History has received a Fritz Thyssen Foundation Research Fellowship for his project entitled “Super Citizenship: American Veterans and the Fight for Human Rights.” The project will produce the first comprehensive history of veteran activism and protest in the US. Read more...
  • Professor Will Eaves from the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies has been awarded the Wellcome Book Prize for his book entitled "Murmur" - a fictionalised account of the chemical castration of mathematician and World War Two code breaker, Alan Turing. Read more...