Professor Julie Brown FBA, Professor Emerita of Music at Royal Holloway, has been awarded a British Academy Fellowship in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the humanities and social sciences.
Professor Julie Brown, Emeritus Professor of Music
The British Academy awards Fellowship to Royal Holloway Professor Emerita of Music
Embargoed until Friday 18 July, 10am BST
Professor Julie Brown FBA, Professor Emerita of Music at Royal Holloway, has been awarded a British Academy Fellowship in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the humanities and social sciences.
The new Fellows welcomed to the British Academy represent a broad spectrum of expertise from the study of twentieth-century music and the structural causes of poverty to environmental law and the neuroscience of memory, language and cognition.
This year’s cohort of 92 sees an increased number of UK Fellows elected, due to new Fellowship places for candidates whose research spans more than one discipline.
They join a community of over 1,800 scholars who share a commitment to advancing the humanities and social sciences.
Professor Stephen Rose, Head of the Music Department at Royal Holloway, said: “This is wonderful recognition of Julie Brown's ground-breaking work on the histories of 20th-century music.
“Julie has done pioneering work on the cultural worlds of composers such as Schoenberg and Bartók, and on how music was used in early cinema, including recreating the music for the 1924 film The Epic of Everest.
“We are also honoured that the Music Department now has three fellows of the British Academy, recognising our commitment to innovative research that shows why music matters to today's world.”
Among this year’s newly elected Fellows are pioneering academics Professor Lily Kong BBM, PPA, FBA, the first Singaporean woman to lead a university in Singapore, and Professor Jonathan D Jansen FBA, the first Black Vice Chancellor and Rector of the University of the Free State, now Distinguished Professor of Education at Stellenbosch University.
This year, 58 new Fellows have been elected from 25 universities across the United Kingdom, alongside 30 International Fellows from universities in the United States, Ireland, South Africa, Singapore, China, Australia, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Finland and Cyprus. Four Honorary Fellows have also been elected in recognition of their exceptional achievements in music, art, journalism and librarianship.
Professor Susan J. Smith PBA, new President of the British Academy, said: “One of my first acts as the incoming President of the British Academy is to welcome this year’s newly elected Fellows. What a line-up!
“With specialisms ranging from the neuroscience of memory to the power of music and the structural causes of poverty, they represent the very best of the humanities and social sciences. They bring years of experience, evidence-based arguments and innovative thinking to the profound challenges of our age: managing the economy, enabling democracy and securing the quality of human life.
“This year, we have increased the number of new Fellows by nearly ten percent to cover some spaces between disciplines. Champions of research excellence, every new Fellow enlarges our capacity to interpret the past, understand the present and shape resilient, sustainable futures. It is a privilege to extend my warmest congratulations to them all.”
