By Erin Johnson (Senior Communications Officer), Published
Professor Banerjee joins Professor Paula Jarzabkowski, Professor Charles Baden-Fuller and Professor Hugh Willmott, who were elected Fellows in 2020 and 2015.
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 fields 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 past members 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.
Each year the academy elects new Fellows, in recognition of their contribution to the humanities and social sciences. Fifty-two of this year’s new Fellows were elected from 21 universities across the UK and 30 International Fellows were elected from universities overseas including the USA, Canada, South Africa, Japan, China, Australia, Taiwan, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey and Israel.
This year’s cohort represent specialisms across the humanities and social sciences, including the contemporary study of political participation, reconstructing ancient human diets and religion, war and society in the English-speaking world.
Professor André Spicer, Executive Dean of Bayes Business School, said:
"I am delighted to see Professor Banerjee join our growing number of Bayes academics elected as Fellows of the British Academy. It is wonderful to see his achievements recognised in this way, and this is a tribute to his commitment and dedication to exceptional scholarship in his academic career."
Welcoming the new Fellows for 2024, President of the British Academy Professor Julia Black said:
“We are delighted to welcome this year’s cohort of Fellows, and I offer my warmest congratulations to each and every one. Since the Academy was created in 1902, our Fellows have been the lifeblood of the organisation, representing the very best of our disciplines – and we would not have the impact we have without their expertise, time and energy. I very much look forward to working closely with our new Fellows; the breadth and depth of their expertise adds so much to the Academy.”
Read more about this year’s cohort of British Academy Fellows.
