The Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies are delighted to announce that Prof Alain Fouad George (IM Pei Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, Director, Khalili Research Centre) has been elected Fellow of the British Academy. Founded in 1902, the British Academy is the UK's national academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Prof George is one of five academics from four Oxford Humanities faculties who were elected Fellows of the British Academy for their distinguished contributions to research across the arts, humanities and social sciences. In total 52 UK Fellows have been nominated for election to the British Academy Fellowship, nine of whom are from Oxford.
Prof George commented:
I am absolutely delighted to join the British Academy, which champions excellence in our fields and promotes connections between the types of research that we do and society at large. These missions matter, and I am honoured to start working alongside this inspiring community of scholars.
For further details please see: Five Humanities academics elected British Academy Fellows | Humanities Division (ox.ac.uk)
