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

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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

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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

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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?

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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¨Cc1700

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 Sch¨¹tz: 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: Mich¨¨le 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

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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