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Major Research Fellowships 2016

Dr Enam Al-Wer
University of Essex
The emerging dialect of Amman: a study in new-dialect formation
£172,302

Professor Richard Bell
University of Nottingham
The theology of Richard Wagner’s Ring Cycle
£152,587

Professor Francisco Bethencourt
King’s College London
New Christians: the rise and fall of a trading elite, 1497–1773
£104,280

Professor Peter Blatchford
University College London
Towards a social pedagogy of classroom learning
£185,169

Professor Donald Bloxham
University of Edinburgh
The world we fought for? System-atic violence in global history since 1945
£144,542

Professor Stephen Bottoms
University of Manchester
Incarceration games: performance, psychology, and the Stanford Prison Experiment
£162,208

Professor Shaun Breslin
University of Warwick
China risen? What is global power (and in what ways does China have it)?
£171,670

Professor Sophie Chappell
Open University
Epiphanies: an ethics and metaethics of experience
£145,244

Dr Juan-Carlos Conde
University of Oxford
Reinventing Spanish history: the work of Américo Castro in its cultural context
£172,806

Mr Jeremy Coote
Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
Oxford’s Cook-voyage collection in historiographical perspective, 1772–2019
£113,723

Professor Mark Cornwall
University of Southampton
Treason and disloyalty in the late Habsburg Monarchy
£148,835

Dr Steffan Davies
University of Bristol
A long history of German exile literature, 1790–1955
£104,028

Professor Klaus Dodds
Royal Holloway, University of London
A new North? The making and re-making of a global Arctic
£182,376

Professor Harri Englund
University of Cambridge
Liberal translations: slavery and humanity in nineteenth-century central Africa
£172,370

Dr Christopher Finlay
University of Birmingham
The subject of legitimate violence: political ethics and the agents of force
£112,846

Professor Stephen Harrison
University of Oxford
Love and the soul: Apuleius’ tale of Cupid and Psyche in European culture since 1600
£155,108

Professor Elizabeth Harvey
University of Nottingham
Making women work: gender, race and labour in Nazi-occupied Europe
£155,258

Professor Andrew Jones
University of York
Using new biosocial data to explore inequality of opportunity in health
£164,836

Professor Caroline Knowles
Goldsmiths, University of London
Serious money: a mobile investigation of plutocratic London
£168,903

Professor Graham Loud
University of Leeds
The social world of the Abbey of Cava, c.1020–1300
£96,406

Professor Annalisa Marzano
University of Reading
‘Grafting glory’: new plants, the economy, and elite identity in Rome
£112,927

Professor Sharon Monteith
University of Nottingham
The Civil Rights Movement: a literary history
£161,043

Professor Gregory Radick
University of Leeds
Disputed inheritance: the battle over Mendel and the future of biology
£95,122

Dr Ulrike Roth
University of Edinburgh
The child face of Roman slavery
£146,288

Professor Louisa Sadler
University of Essex
Complementation patterns in vernacular Arabic
£107,645

Professor Jo Shaw
University of Edinburgh
Building citizenship regimes: a global perspective
£143,622

Professor Christopher Smith
University of St Andrews
The Roman kings: a study in archaeology, history and power
£173,897

Professor Alison Stone
University of Lancaster
Birth and Philosophy
£67,782

Professor Mary Vincent
University of Sheffield
Religious violence in the Spanish Civil War: iconoclasm and crusade
£95,051

Dr Genevieve Warwick
University of Edinburgh
The mirrors of art: painting and reflection in early modern Europe
£143,803

Professor Diane Watt
University of Surrey
Women’s literary culture before the conquest
£102,256

Professor David Whyte
University of Liverpool
Benchmarking corruption in the global north
£98,979

Dr Christina Young
Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London
The power to transform: painted stage cloths in England
£158,746

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