British Academy Honour for Two SOAS Professors
Professor Charles Tripp and Professor Hugh Kennedy have been made Fellows of the British Academy.
20 July 2012
SOAS academics, Professor Charles Tripp and Professor Hugh Kennedy, have been elected Fellows of the British Academy.
Professor Charles Tripp is a Professor of Politics with reference to the Middle East with the Department of Politics and International Studies. His research interests include the nature of autocracy, state and resistance in the Middle East and the politics of Islamic identity. He is the author of Islam and the Moral Economy: The Challenge of Capitalism (2006), A History of Iraq (2007) and The Power and the People: paths of resistance in the Middle East (2012).
Professor Hugh Kennedy from the Department of Languages and Culture of Near and Middle East is a historian of the early Islamic world. He has written many books and articles including, most recently, The Courts of the Caliphs (2004) and The Great Arab Conquests (2007). His teaching repertoire includes a general introduction to the Muslim World and a specialist course on Reading Classical Arabic Historians.
SOAS Director Paul Webley said he was delighted that two SOAS professors were being recognised by the British Academy this year: “Charles and Hugh are certainly very worthy and deserving of this great honour. As Fellows of the Academy, they join a group of scholars who represent excellence in their fields and demonstrate the value of humanities and social science research in the UK and worldwide.”
Each year, the British Academy elects up to 38 outstanding UK-based scholars. Professor Tripp and Professor Kennedy join more than 900 scholars who have been honoured as Fellows of the British Academy.
The British Academy’s purpose is to inspire, recognise and support excellence and high achievement in the humanities and social sciences throughout the UK and internationally.
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