The Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies is delighted to share the news that Professor Alison Salvesen and Professor Margaret Hillenbrand have been elected as Fellows of the British Academy, the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences.
Professor Salvesen (Polonsky Fellow in Early Judaism at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies) has been recognised for her distinguished scholarship on early Jewish and Christian translations and receptions of the Hebrew Bible. She commented: 'The Academy’s role in supporting and promoting the Humanities and Social Sciences is especially important in the present time. I am deeply honoured to have been elected a Fellow.'
Professor Hillenbrand, Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture and Fellow of Wadham College, was also elected in recognition of her work on Chinese literary and visual culture. She said: 'I’m very happy that the British Academy has recognised the study of literary and visual culture from contemporary China in this way. There’s still a huge knowledge deficit about China in the UK, particularly beyond the domains of economics and geopolitics, and the British Academy is an institution that really has the power to change that, through its funding, its public engagement, and the connections it builds between researchers. I’m also very grateful to Wadham and to the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies for creating such supportive environments for research.'
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