The British Academy
2008 Postdoctoral Fellowships
Forty-nine 2008 Postdoctoral Fellowships have been awarded by the British Academy across the humanities and social sciences, of which twelve are listed below. The fellowships are worth an average of £220,000 each over a three-year period and allow outstanding early career researchers to strengthen their experience of research and teaching in a university environment.
Award winner: Anna Akasoy
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £233,054
Al-Andalus in exile: regional identities of Andalusian scholars in the eastern Mediterranean (11th-14th centuries)
Award winner: Katherine Brickell
Institution: Royal Holloway, University of London
Value: £243,652
Geographies of transition in the Mekong region: gender, labour and domestic life in Cambodia and Vietnam
Award winner: Nandini Chatterjee
Institution: King’s College London
Value: £234,044
Personal laws in the British Empire: a comparative history
Award winner: Karina Croucher
Institution: University of Manchester
Value: £229,616
Being in the world: perceptions of the body and identity from the earliest villages to state societies
Award winner: Philip Derbyshire
Institution: Birkbeck, University of London
Value: £195,502
“The Andean” in Argentina: a region in representation and cultural imaginaries
Award winner: Ranji Devadason
Institution: University of Bristol
Value: £211,961
Transnational moral and market entrepreneurs: carriers, drivers and products of globalisation
Award winner: Leif Dixon
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: £192,284
William Perkins and the theological culture of Calvinism in early modern England
Award winner: Hugh Doherty Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £239,712
The impact of Angevin rule in the English kingdom, 1174-1194
Award winner: Brandon Dotson
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £229,348
Narrative, orality and sacred kingship in Tibet’s first epic history
Award winner: Rosie Ensor
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: £219,476
The good, the bad and the socially busy: children’s prosocial and antisocial acts with friends
Award winner: Rita Floyd
Institution: University of Warwick
Value: £217,638
Consequentialist evaluation of security for cooperative international society
Award winner: Camilla Gilmore
Institution: University of Nottingham
Value: £208,780
The roots of arithmetic: linking numerical cognition with mathematics education
Award winner: Vanessa Grotti
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £228,974
Bodies of kin: changing relations of wellbeing in northeastern Amazonia
Award winner: Susanna Harris
Institution: University College London
Value: £229,828
Cloth cultures in prehistoric Europe
Award winner: Katja Haustein
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: £192,600
Cultures of distance: visualising the place of women in Weimar Germany
Award winner: Alicia Hinarejos
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £234,422
Legal problems arising from European Union action against terrorism
Award winner: Oliver Johnson
Institution: University of Sheffield
Value: £206,094
A critical analysis of the postwar Soviet art establishment, 1946-1956
Award winner: Man Yee Kan
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £230,300
Time together: impacts of desynchronized work schedules on family life in Britain and France, 1960s - 2000s
Award winner: Anna Kibort
Institution: University of Surrey
Value: £199,784
Syntactic government
Award winner: Adrian Lashmore-Davies
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: £186,526
Bolingbroke’s unpublished letters
Award winner: Nivedita Mani
Institution: University College London
Value: £236,396
Investigating phonological priming in infancy
Award winner: Fabienne Marchand
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £234,414
Crossing political borders: social and cultural interactions between Euboia and Boiotia (c 700-171BC)
Award winner: Anna Marmodoro
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £234,720
Causal powers in Aristotle’s philosophy of mind
Award winner: Ralf Martin
Institution: London School of Economics
Value: £6,497
How to induce innovation to address climate change?
Award winner: Carys Moseley
Institution: University of Edinburgh
Value: £206,908
Karl Barth in critical conversation with social scientific readings of religion, nationalism and gender relations
Award winner: Matilda Mroz
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: £192,530
Configurations of time and space in Polish cinema from 1945 to 1989
Award winner: Katharine Olson
Institution: Bangor University
Value: £212,451
Local contexts of change: popular religion, community, and the development of confessional identity in Wales, c1500-1640
Award winner: Richard Pettigrew
Institution: University of Bristol
Value: £187,817
Finding the foundations for natural and real number arithmetic in a theory of finite sets
Award winner: Eyal Poleg
Institution: University of Edinburgh
Value: £222,424
The material culture of the Bible in England, c1230–c1700
Award winner: Marina Popescu
Institution: University of Essex
Value: £203,709
Explaining when and why media influence citizens: a multi-method cross-national analysis
Award winner: Roberta Roberts
Institution: University of Birmingham
Value: £267,380
The feeling hand: an exploration of tactile perception contrasting whole-hand and single-finger exploration
Award winner: Darrell Rowbottom
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £235,371
Group rationality and the dynamics of inquiry
Award winner: Tali Sharot
Institution: University College London
Value: £266,617
How emotion biases choice: the neural mechanism mediating affective forecasting errors
Award winner: Marco Simoni,
Institution: London School of Economics
Value: £258,290
The low inflation left: converging policies and diverging outcomes during globalisation
Award winner: Niketas Siniossoglou
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: £183,362
Platonic philosophy and Hellenic idenitity in Gemistus Plethon
Award winner: George Southcombe
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £225,577
The dissenting uses of history in the Restoration
Award winner: Marie Suetsugu
Institution: University of Aberystwyth
Value: £174,184
Postcolonial relations and responsibility in Japan and East Asia: the writings of Haruki Murakami
Award winner: Shzr Ee Tan
Institution: Royal Holloway, University of London
Value: £252,666
Virtual sounds: new music-scapes in the Chinese diaspora
Award winner: Justice Tankebe
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: £187,645
Policing and legitimacy in a multicultural society: the case of London
Award winner: Robert Truswell
Institution: University of Edinburgh
Value: £202,262
Reconstruction without movement
Award winner: Jelle Van Lottum
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: £193,025
In search of work: labour migration and economic performance in England and the Netherlands, 1600-1900
Award winner: Bettina Varwig
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: £199,980
Imagining Heinrich Schütz: early modern culture and German historiography
Award winner: Michael Waibel
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: £194,406
The insolvency of states in international law
Award winner: Alexander Watson
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: £192,979
National minorities at war: Polish identity and combat motivation in the armies of the Central powers, 1914-1918
Award winner: Mark Weeden
Institution: Soas
Value: £225,187
Studies in the Akkadian of Alalakh
Award winner: Michèle Wollstonecroft
Institution: University College London
Value: £229,892
Diet and subsistence choices of Southwestern Europe’s last hunter-gatherers: an archaeobotanical and interdisciplinary investigation into the role of plants in the Muge (Portugal) Final Mesolithic
Award winner: David Woodman
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: £192,475
The Historia Regum: a critical edition
Award winner: Kerri Woods
Institution: University of York
Value: £211,613
Solidarity with distant others: motivation and justification in contemporary cosmopolitan political philosophy
Award winner: Jidong Zhou
Institution: University College London
Value: £229,455
Behavioral industrial organisation