The

British Academy The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the same year. It is now a fellowship of more than 1,000 leading scholars span ...

presents 18 awards and medals to recognise achievement in the humanities and social sciences.

Overview

The British Academy currently awards 18 prizes and medals: General awards: *

British Academy Medal The British Academy Medal is awarded annually by the British Academy to up to three individuals or groups. It is awarded for "outstanding achievement that has transformed understanding of a particular subject or field of study in ... any branch of ...

(for academic research that has "transformed understanding" of a field of the humanities or social sciences) * The President's Medal (for "outstanding service" to the humanities or social sciences) * Leverhulme Medal and Prize (for "significant contribution to knowledge or understanding" in a field of the humanities or social sciences) Discipline-specific awards: *

Brian Barry Prize in Political Science The British Academy presents 18 awards and medals to recognise achievement in the humanities and social sciences. Overview The British Academy currently awards 18 prizes and medals: General awards: * British Academy Medal (for academic research ...

Burkitt Medal for Biblical Studies The Burkitt Medal is awarded annually by the British Academy "in recognition of special service to Biblical Studies". Awards alternate between Hebrew Bible studies (odd years) and New Testament studies (even years). It was established in 1923 and h ...

Derek Allen Prize The Derek Allen Prize is awarded by the British Academy. It was founded in 1976 to honour Derek Allen, FBA, who was secretary (1969–73) and treasurer (1973–75) of the British Academy. It was established by his widow and sons to recognise outsta ...

(for numismatics, Celtic studies or musicology) *

Edward Ullendorff Medal The British Academy presents 18 awards and medals to recognise achievement in the humanities and social sciences. Overview The British Academy currently awards 18 prizes and medals: General awards: * British Academy Medal (for academic researc ...

(for Semitic languages and Ethiopian studies) *

Grahame Clark Medal The Grahame Clark Medal is awarded by the British Academy every two years "for academic achievement involving recent contributions to the study of prehistoric archaeology". It was endowed in 1992 by Sir Grahame Clark, an eminent prehistorian and a ...

(for prehistoric archaeology) *

Kenyon Medal The Kenyon Medal is awarded every two years by the British Academy 'in recognition of work in the field of classical studies and archaeology'. The medal was endowed by Sir Frederic Kenyon and was first awarded in 1957. List of recipients SourceBri ...

(for classical studies and archaeology) *

Landscape Archaeology Medal The British Academy presents 18 awards and medals to recognise achievement in the humanities and social sciences. Overview The British Academy currently awards 18 prizes and medals: General awards: * British Academy Medal (for academic researc ...

* Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize (for global cultural understanding) *

Neil and Saras Smith Medal for Linguistics The British Academy presents 18 awards and medals to recognise achievement in the humanities and social sciences. Overview The British Academy currently awards 18 prizes and medals: General awards: * British Academy Medal (for academic research ...

Peter Townsend Prize The British Academy presents 18 awards and medals to recognise achievement in the humanities and social sciences. Overview The British Academy currently awards 18 prizes and medals: General awards: * British Academy Medal (for academic researc ...

(for the sociology of poverty, ageing or health) *

Rose Mary Crawshay Prize The Rose Mary Crawshay Prize is a literary prize for female scholars, inaugurated in 1888 by the British Academy. Description The prize, set up in 1888, is said by the British Academy to be the only UK literary prize specifically for female sch ...

(for English literature scholarship; women only) * Serena Medal (for Italian studies) *

Sir Israel Gollancz Prize Sir Israel Gollancz Prize is awarded biannually by the British Academy in honour of Israel Gollancz, a founder member and its first secretary, since 1924. Originally named "Biennial Prize for English Literature" and renamed after Gollancz's death ...

(for English literature scholarship) *

Wiley Prize in Economics The British Academy presents 18 awards and medals to recognise achievement in the humanities and social sciences. Overview The British Academy currently awards 18 prizes and medals: General awards: * British Academy Medal (for academic researc ...

* Wiley Prize in Psychology

Prizes and medals

Brian Barry Prize in Political Science

The Brian Barry Prize in Political Science is awarded jointly by the British Academy, the

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, and the ''

British Journal of Political Science ''British Journal of Political Science'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering all aspects of political science. Abstracting and indexing The journal is abstracted and indexed in EBSCOhost, International Political Science Abst ...

''. It was named in honour of

Brian Barry Brian Barry, (7 August 1936 – 10 March 2009) was a moral and political philosopher. He was educated at the Queen's College, Oxford, obtaining the degrees of B.A. and D.Phil. under the direction of H. L. A. Hart. Along with David Braybrook ...

and first awarded in 2014. It is awarded annually to an individual or group "for excellence in political science, as displayed in an unpublished essay". The prize is £2500 and the winning essay is published in the ''British Journal of Political Science''. List of Recipients: * 2014:

Helder De Schutter Helder may refer to: * Den Helder or The Helder, a municipality and a city in the Netherlands * Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland in 1799, or expedition to the "Helder" People * Anne-Marie Helder (21st century), British singer-songwriter * Glen ...

and Dr

Lea Ypi Lea Ypi (born 8 September 1979) is an Albanian author and academic. She is a professor of political theory at the London School of Economics. She is a member of the jury of the Deutscher Memorial Prize. Personal life Ypi was born in Tirana, the e ...

, for 'Mandatory Citizenship for Immigrants' * 2015:

Parashar Kulkarni Notable people bearing the name Parashar include: * Amol Parashar - Indian actor * Deepak Parashar - Indian actor and former model * Narain Chand Parashar - Indian parliamentarian, professor, linguist and writer. * Pankuj Parashar - Indian ...

, for 'Are There Cultural Prerequisites to Effective Property Rights?: Evidence from Inheritance Rights of Widows in Colonial India' * 2016:

William Roberts Clark William is a masculine given name of Norman French origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conqu ...

, Professor

Matt Golder Matt Golder is an American political scientist. He is Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Political Science at Pennsylvania State University. Golder is the editor of two important works of comparative political s ...

, and Professor

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, for 'An Exit, Voice, and Loyalty Model of Politics' * 2017: Jonathan White, for 'The Ethics of Political Alliance' * 2018:

Zeynep Pamuk Zeynep is the Turkish form of the Arabic female given name Zaynab. Zeynep means "precious rock, precious gem" and may refer to: People *Zeynep Ahunbay (born 1946), Turkish scholar of antiquities *Zeynep Sibel Algan (born 1955), Turkish diplomat ...

, of St John's College, Oxford, for 'Justifying Public Funding for Science."Award-winning journalists, prehistorians and world-leading economists honoured with prestigious British Academy prizes and medals"
''The British Academy'', 20 August 2018. Retrieved 2 October 2018. * 2019: Andre Santos Campos, for 'Representing the Future: The Interests of Future Persons in Representative Democracy' * 2020:

Jonathan Havercroft Jonathan may refer to: * Jonathan (name), a masculine given name Media * ''Jonathan'' (1970 film), a German film directed by Hans W. Geißendörfer * ''Jonathan'' (2016 film), a German film directed by Piotr J. Lewandowski * ''Jonathan'' (2018 ...

, for 'Why is there no just riot theory?'

British Academy Medal

The British Academy Medal was established in 2013. It is awarded annually "for academic research that has transformed understanding in a field of the humanities and social sciences".

Burkitt Medal

The Burkitt Medal for Biblical Studies was established in 1923. It is awarded annually "in recognition of special service to Biblical Studies", with the area of study alternating between the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament.

Derek Allen Prize

The Derek Allen Prize was founded in 1976 to honour

Derek Allen Derek Fortrose Allen (29 May 1910 – 13 June 1975) was Secretary of the British Academy from 1969 to 1973 and Treasurer of that organisation from 1973 until his death. Born in Epsom, Surrey, Allen joined the British Museum staff in 1935 as ...

, FBA, who was secretary (1969–73) and treasurer (1973–75) of the British Academy; it was established by his widow and sons to recognise outstanding scholarly achievement in Allen's principal interests:

numismatics Numismatics is the study or collection of currency, including coins, tokens, paper money, medals and related objects. Specialists, known as numismatists, are often characterized as students or collectors of coins, but the discipline also inclu ...

Celtic studies Celtic studies or Celtology is the academic discipline occupied with the study of any sort of cultural output relating to the Celtic-speaking peoples (i.e. speakers of Celtic languages). This ranges from linguistics, literature and art histo ...

and musicology. Although awarded annually, the prize rotates between the three disciplines. Recipients are awarded £400."Derek Allen Prize"
''British Academy''. Retrieved 13 May 2018.

Edward Ullendorff Medal

The Edward Ullendorff Medal was created in 2012 to honour Professor

Edward Ullendorff Edward Ullendorff (1920–2011) was a British scholar and historian. He was a prominent figure in Ethiopian Studies and also contributed work on the Semitic languages. Biography Born on 25 January 1920 in Zurich, Switzerland, Ullendorff was e ...

, FBA, who had died the previously year; its establishment was supported by his widow. Award annually, the medal recognizes "scholarly distinction and achievements in the field of

Semitic Languages The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They are spoken by more than 330 million people across much of West Asia, the Horn of Africa, and latterly North Africa, Malta, West Africa, Chad, and in large immigrant a ...

and Ethiopian Studies"."Edward Ullendorff Medal"
''British Academy''. Retrieved 13 May 2018. List of recipients: * 2012: Simon Hopkins, FBA, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. * 2013:

Getatchew Haile Getatchew Haile (; April 19, 1931 – June 10, 2021) was an Ethiopian-American philologist widely considered the foremost scholar of the Ge'ez language and one of its most prolific (he published more than 150 books and articles). He was acknowle ...

, FBA, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library of Saint John's University, USA. * 2014:

David Appleyard David Appleyard (born 1950 in Leeds, England) is a British academic and an specialist in Ethiopian languages and linguistics. He is Professor Emeritus of the Languages of the Horn of Africa at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in ...

, School of African and Oriental Studies. * 2015: Siegbert Uhlig, University of Hamburg. * 2016:

Sebastian Brock Sebastian Paul Brock, FBA (born 1938, London) is a British scholar, university professor, and expert in the field of academic studies of Classical Syriac language and Classical Syriac literature. His research also encompasses various aspects o ...

, FBA, University of Oxford. * 2017:

Veronika Six Veronica, Veronika, etc., may refer to: People * Veronica (name) * Saint Veronica * Saint Veronica of Syria Arts and media Comics and literature * ''Veronica'', an 1870 novel by Frances Eleanor Trollope * ''Veronica'', a 2005 novel by Mary Ga ...

, University of Hamburg. * 2018:

John Huehnergard John Huehnergard (born March 16, 1952) is a Canadian-American specialist in Semitic languages, notable for his work on categorization, etymology, and historical linguistics. Early life and education Huehnergard was born in Kitchener, Ontario, Can ...

, The University of Texas at Austin * 2019:

Michael Knibb Michael Anthony Knibb (born 1938) is a biblical scholar and retired academic. He was Samuel Davidson Professor of Old Testament Studies at King's College London from 1997 to 2001. Born 14 December 1938, he completed BD and PhD degrees at King's ...

, King's College London * 2020:

Otto Jastrow Otto is a masculine German given name and a surname. It originates as an Old High German short form (variants ''Audo'', ''Odo'', '' Udo'') of Germanic names beginning in ''aud-'', an element meaning "wealth, prosperity". The name is recorded ...

, "for his leading scholarship in the field of Arabic and Neo-Aramaic spoken dialects" * 2021: Olga Kapeliuk

Grahame Clark Medal

The Grahame Clark Medal endowed in 1992 by Sir Grahame Clark and first awarded in 1993. It is awarded every two years "for academic achievement involving recent contributions to the study of prehistoric archaeology".

Kenyon Medal

The Kenyon Medal was endowed by

Sir Frederic Kenyon Sir Frederic George Kenyon (15 January 1863 – 23 August 1952) was a British palaeographer and biblical and classical scholar. He held a series of posts at the British Museum from 1889 to 1931. He was also the president of the British Academy fr ...

and awarded for the first time in 1957. It is awarded every two years "in recognition of work in the fields of classical studies and archaeology".

Landscape Archaeology Medal

The Landscape Archaeology Medal is awarded every two years "for distinguished achievements in landscape archaeology". It was first awarded in 2007. List of Recipients: * 2007: Andrew Fleming * 2009:

Tony Wilkinson Tony James Wilkinson, FBA (14 August 1948 – 25 December 2014) was a British archaeologist and academic, specialising in landscape archaeology and the Ancient Near East. He was Professor of Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh from 20 ...

* 2011: Conor Newman * 2013: Christopher Taylor * 2015: David Hall * 2017: Tom Williamson, "for his significant contribution to the study of landscape history and archaeology" * 2019:

Dominic Powlesland Dominic Powlesland, (born 1954) is a British landscape archaeologist based in North Yorkshire. He has contributed to the methodologies of field archaeology and landscape survey, particularly Geophysical survey (archaeology), geophysics and the ...

* 2020:

Keith Branigan Keith may refer to: People and fictional characters * Keith (given name), includes a list of people and fictional characters * Keith (surname) * Keith (singer), American singer James Keefer (born 1949) * Baron Keith, a line of Scottish barons ...

, "for his distinguished and varied career with many notable achievements in the study of Roman Britain and the prehistory of the Aegean"

Leverhulme Medal and Prize

The Leverhulme Medal and Prize was created 2002 and is sponsored by

The Leverhulme Trust The Leverhulme Trust () is a large national grant-making organisation in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1925 under the will of the 1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851–1925), with the instruction that its resources should be used to suppo ...

. It is awarded every three years "for significant contribution to knowledge and understanding in a field within the humanities and social sciences". It is worth £5000.

The British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding

The British Academy Book Prize (formerly the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding) was established by

Nayef Al-Rodhan Nayef R. F. Al-Rodhan ( ar, نايف الروضان; born 1959) is a Saudi philosopher, neuroscientist, geostrategist, and author. He is an honorary fellow of St. Antony’s College at Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom, and senior fell ...

in 2013. It is awarded annually for "outstanding scholarly contributions to global cultural understanding". It is worth £25,000. List of Recipients: * Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Transcultural Understanding ** 2013:

Karen Armstrong Karen Armstrong (born 14 November 1944) is a British author and commentator of Irish Catholic descent known for her books on comparative religion. A former Roman Catholic religious sister, she went from a conservative to a more liberal and m ...

, "in recognition of her body of work that has made a significant contribution to understanding the elements of overlap and commonality in different cultures and religions" ** 2014: Jonathan Jansen, University of the Free State, South Africa, for his book ''Knowledge in the Blood: Confronting Race and the Apartheid Past'' (2009) ** 2015:

Neil MacGregor Robert Neil MacGregor (born 16 June 1946) is a British art historian and former museum director. He was editor of the '' Burlington Magazine'' from 1981 to 1987, then Director of the National Gallery, London, from 1987 to 2002, Director of ...

, British Museum, for his books ''A History of the World in 100 Objects'' (2010) and '' Germany: Memories Of A Nation'' (2014) ** 2016:

Carole Hillenbrand Carole Hillenbrand, (born 1943), is a British Islamic scholar who is Emerita Professor in Islamic History at the University of Edinburgh and Professor of Islamic History at the University of St Andrews. She is the Vice-President of the British ...

, University of Edinburgh, for her book ''Islam: A New Historical Introduction'' (2015). * Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding ** 2017:

Timothy Garton Ash Timothy Garton Ash CMG FRSA (born 12 July 1955) is a British historian, author and commentator. He is Professor of European Studies at Oxford University. Most of his work has been concerned with the contemporary history of Europe, with a spec ...

, University of Oxford, for his book ''"Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World"'' (2016). ** 2018:

Kapka Kassabova Kapka Kassabova (born in November 1973, in Bulgarian Капка Касабова) is a poet and writer of fiction and narrative non-fiction. Her mother tongue is Bulgarian, but she writes in English. Life Kapka Kassabova was born and grew up in ...

for her book ''Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe''. ** 2019:

Toby Green Toby Green is a British historian who is a Professor of Precolonial and Lusophone African History and Culture at King's College London. He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in African studies at the University of Birmingham. He is Chair of the F ...

for his book ''A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the rise of the slave trade to the age of revolution''. **2020: Hazel V. Carby for her book ''Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands'' **2021:

Sujit Sivasundaram Sujit Sivasundaram is a British Sri Lankan historian and academic. He is currently professor of world history at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. Early life Sivasundaram was born in Sri Lanka. He is the great grand son of Law ...

for ''Waves Across the South: A new history of revolution and empire''

Neil and Saras Smith Medal for Linguistics

The Neil and Saras Smith Medal for Linguistics is awarded annually to an individual for "lifetime achievement in the scholarly study of linguistics". It was established by Neil Smith in 2013, and first awarded in 2014. List of Recipients: * 2014:

Noam Chomsky Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American public intellectual: a linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is ...

FBA * 2015:

William Labov William Labov ( ; born December 4, 1927) is an American linguist widely regarded as the founder of the discipline of variationist sociolinguistics. He has been described as "an enormously original and influential figure who has created much of ...

, "for his significant contribution to linguistics and the language sciences" * 2016: Sir John Lyons FBA, "for his outstanding lifetime contribution to the field of linguistics" * 2017:

Bernard Comrie Bernard Sterling Comrie, (; born 23 May 1947) is a British-born linguist. Comrie is a specialist in linguistic typology, linguistic universals and on Caucasian languages. Early life and education Comrie was born in Sunderland, England on 23 Ma ...

FBA, "for his significant contributions to the study of language universals, linguistic typology and language history" * 2018:

Barbara Partee Barbara Hall Partee (born June 23, 1940) is a Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Linguistics and Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass). Biography Born in Englewood, New Jersey, Partee grew up in the Baltimor ...

FBA (University of Massachusetts Amherst), for "her leading contributions to the study of semantics, syntax and pragmatics". * 2019:

Deirdre Wilson Deirdre Susan Moir Wilson, FBA (born 1941) is a British linguist and cognitive scientist. She is emeritus professor of Linguistics at University College London and research professor at the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature at the Uni ...

FBA (University College London) * 2020:

Paul Kiparsky René Paul Victor Kiparsky (born January 28, 1941) is a Finnish professor of linguistics at Stanford University. He is the son of the Russian-born linguist and Slavicist Valentin Kiparsky. Kiparsky is especially known for his contributions ...

FBA (Stanford University), for "his research on phonology and historical linguistics". * 2021:

Marianne Mithun Marianne Mithun (born 1946) is an American linguist specializing in American Indian languages and language typology. She is professor of linguistics at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where she has held an academic position since ...

(University of California, Santa Barbara)

Peter Townsend Prize

The Peter Townsend Prize was created in 2011 to honour the sociologist Professor Peter Townsend, FBA, who had died in 2009. The prize is awarded biennially to recognise "outstanding work with policy relevance on a topic to which Townsend made a major contribution." Nominations are made for "a published work with policy relevance and academic merit on poverty and inequality; ageing and the lives of older people; disability and inequalities in health." The prize is awarded with £2,000."Peter Townsend Prize"
''British Academy''. Retrieved 13 May 2018. List of recipients: * 2011: Julia Johnson,

Sheena Rolph Sheena may refer to: People * Ringo Sheena (born 1978), Japanese singer *Shenna Bellows (born 1975), American politician *Sheena Belarmino (born 2005), Filipino singer and dancer * Sheena Easton (born 1959), Scottish actress and singer * Sheena Ha ...

and

Randall Smith Randall Smith (born March 8, 1960) is a Canadian electroacoustic music composer living in Toronto Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the m ...

for ''Residential Care Transformed: Revisiting 'The Last Refuge * 2013:

Tracy Shildrick Tracy, Tracey, or Tracie may refer to: People and fictional characters * Tracy (name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or surname, also encompassing spelling variations Places United States * Tracy, ...

, Professor Robert MacDonald, Colin Webster and

Kayleigh Garthwaite "Kayleigh" is a song by the British neo-progressive rock band Marillion. It was released as the first single from the concept album ''Misplaced Childhood''. It was the band's most successful single in the UK, where it peaked at number-two and s ...

for ''Poverty and Insecurity: Life in Low-Pay, No-Pay Britain'' * 2015:

Andrew Sayer (R.) Andrew Sayer (born 1949) is Emeritus Professor of Social Theory and Political Economy at Lancaster University, UK. He is known for significant contributions to methodology and theory in the social sciences. Education Andrew Sayer studied a B ...

for ''Why We Can't Afford the Rich'' * 2017:

for ''Hunger Pains: Life Inside Foodbank Britain'' * 2019: Steven King for ''Writing the Lives of the English Poor 1750s-1830s'' * 2021: John Stewart for ''Richard Titmuss: A Commitment to Welfare''

President's Medal

The President's Medal is awarded annually by the British Academy to up to five individuals or organisations for "outstanding service to the cause of the humanities and social sciences". It was first award in 2010.

Rose Mary Crawshay Prize

The Rose Mary Crawshay Prize was created in 1888 as The Byron, Shelley, Keats In Memoriam Yearly Prize Fund by

Rose Mary Crawshay Rose Mary Crawshay (1828–1907) was a British philanthropist. She commissioned free libraries and a non-fiction prize for women. Life Crawshay was born Rose Mary Yeates in Caversham Grove in Oxfordshire to Wilson Yeates and his first wife. She ...

(1828–1907). In 1914, the fund was transferred to the British Academy. The newly renamed Rose Mary Crawshay Prize was first awarded in 1916. It is awarded annually "for a historical or critical work on any subject connected with English Literature by a woman of any nationality" and is worth £500.

Serena Medal

The Serena Medal was established in 1920 and is awarded annually for "eminent services towards the furtherance of the study of Italian history, philosophy or music, literature, art, or economics.""Serena Medal"
''British Academy''. Retrieved 13 May 2018. List of recipients: * 1920 Dr

G. M. Trevelyan George Macaulay Trevelyan (16 February 1876 – 21 July 1962) was a British historian and academic. He was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1898 to 1903. He then spent more than twenty years as a full-time author. He returned to the ...

* 1921 Dr Paget Toynbee * 1922 Professor

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* 1923 Dr

Horatio Brown Horatio Robert Forbes Brown (16 February 1854 – 19 August 1926) was a Scottish historian who specialized in the history of Venice and Italy. Born in Nice, he grew up in Midlothian, Scotland, was educated in England at Clifton College and Oxfor ...

* 1924 Edward Hutton * 1925 No award * 1926

Edward Armstrong Edward Armstrong may refer to: * Edward Armstrong (cricketer) (1881–1963), Australian cricketer * Edward Allworthy Armstrong (1900–1978), ornithologist and Church of England clergyman * Edward Armstrong (historian) (1846–1928), English histo ...

* 1927

Benedetto Croce Benedetto Croce (; 25 February 1866 – 20 November 1952) was an Italian idealist philosopher, historian, and politician, who wrote on numerous topics, including philosophy, history, historiography and aesthetics. In most regards, Croce was a ...

* 1928 Senatore

Giovanni Gentile Giovanni Gentile (; 30 May 1875 – 15 April 1944) was an Italian neo- Hegelian idealist philosopher, educator, and fascist politician. The self-styled "philosopher of Fascism", he was influential in providing an intellectual foundation for ...

* 1929 No award * 1930 Commendatore

Ettore Modigliani Ettore Modigliani (Rome, 20 December 1873 – Milan, 22 June 1947) was an Italian museum director and art historian. Career Modigliani was the director of the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan from 1908 to 1934. During this period, he focused on th ...

* 1931

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* 1932 Professor

Cesare Foligno Cesare, the Italian version of the given name Caesar, may refer to: Given name * Cesare, Marquis of Beccaria (1738–1794), an Italian philosopher and politician * Cesare Airaghi (1840–1896), Italian colonel * Cesare Arzelà (1847–1912), ...

* 1933 Professor Thomas Okey * 1934 Lord Rennell * 1935 Professor

Mario Praz Mario Praz (; September 6, 1896, Rome – March 23, 1982, Rome) was an Italian-born critic of art and literature, and a scholar of English literature. His best-known book, ''The Romantic Agony'' (1933), was a comprehensive survey of the decadent, ...

* 1936 No award * 1937 Professor G. de Sanctis * 1938 Eugénie Sellers Strong * 1939 No award * 1940 Evelyn M. Jamison * 1941

G. F.-H. Berkeley G is the seventh letter of the Latin alphabet. G may also refer to: Places * Gabon, international license plate code G * Glasgow, UK postal code G * Eastern Quebec, Canadian postal prefix G * Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Australia, ...

* 1942 Professor

Gaetano Salvemini Gaetano Salvemini (; 8 September 1873 – 6 September 1957) was an Italian Socialist and antifascist politician, historian and writer. Born in a family of modest means, he became an acclaimed historian both in Italy and abroad, particularly in ...

* 1943

Bernard Berenson Bernard Berenson (June 26, 1865 – October 6, 1959) was an American art historian specializing in the Renaissance. His book ''The Drawings of the Florentine Painters'' was an international success. His wife Mary is thought to have had a larg ...

* 1944–45 No award * 1946 Dr Giovanni Poggi * 1947 No award * 1948 Sir George Hill * 1949 No award * 1950 Professor Etienne Gilson * 1951 Professor

Giuseppe Lugli Giuseppe Lugli (born in Rome, Italy, in 1890; died in Rome, Italy, on December 5, 1967) was Professor of Topography of ancient Rome, ancient Roman topography at the University of Rome La Sapienza, University of Rome from 1933 to 1961. Lugli's aca ...

* 1952 No award * 1953 Professor

Carlo Dionisotti Carlo Dionisotti (9 June 1908 in Turin – 22 February 1998 in LondonConor FahyObituary: Professor Carlo Dionisotti The Independent, March 5, 1998. Accessed November 22, 2016) was an Italian literary critic, philologist and essayist. An alumnus of ...

* 1954 Professor Frederico Chabod * 1955 Lord Clark * 1956 Dr Umberto Zanotti-Bianco * 1957 Professor

Rudolf Wittkower Rudolf Wittkower (22 June 1901 – 11 October 1971) was a British art historian specializing in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture, who spent much of his career in London, but was educated in Germany, and later moved to the Unit ...

* 1958 Dr P. O. Kristeller * 1959 Professor

Bruno Nardi Bruno may refer to: People and fictional characters * Bruno (name), including lists of people and fictional characters with either the given name or surname * Bruno, Duke of Saxony (died 880) * Bruno the Great (925–965), Archbishop of Cologn ...

* 1960

Denis Mack Smith Denis Mack Smith CBE FBA FRSL (3 March 1920 – 11 July 2017) was an English historian who specialized in the history of Italy from the Risorgimento onwards. He is best known for his biographies of Garibaldi, Cavour and Mussolini, and for hi ...

* 1961 Sir

John Pope-Hennessy Sir John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy (13 December 1913 – 31 October 1994), was a British art historian. Pope-Hennessy was Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum between 1967 and 1973, and Director of the British Museum between 1974 and 1976. ...

* 1962

J. B. Ward-Perkins ''J. The Jewish News of Northern California'', formerly known as ''Jweekly'', is a weekly print newspaper in Northern California, with its online edition updated daily. It is owned and operated by San Francisco Jewish Community Publications In ...

* 1963 Professor Johannes Wilde * 1964 No award * 1965 Professor

Axel Boethius Axel may refer to: People * Axel (name), all persons with the name Places * Axel, Netherlands, a town ** Capture of Axel, a battle at Axel in 1586 Arts, entertainment, media * ''Axel'', a 1988 short film by Nigel Wingrove * ''Axel'', a Cirqu ...

* 1966

Paola Zancani Paola is a female given name, the Italian form of the name Paula. Notable people with the name include: People In arts and entertainment *Paola Del Medico (born 1950), Swiss singer *Paola e Chiara, pop music duo consisting of two sisters born ...

* 1967 Professor

Edgar Wind Edgar Wind (; 14 May 1900 – 12 September 1971) was a German-born British interdisciplinary art historian, specializing in iconology in the Renaissance era. He was a member of the school of art historians associated with Aby Warburg and the W ...

* 1968 Professor

Ludwig Heydenreich Ludwig Heinrich Heydenreich (born 23 March 1903 in Leipzig; died 14 September 1978 in Munich) was a German art historian specialized in Italian Renaissance art. From 1947 to 1970, he served as director of the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, ...

* 1969 Professor

Roberto Weiss Roberto Weiss (21 January 1906 – 10 August 1969) was an Italian-British scholar and historian who specialised in the fields of Italian-English cultural contacts during the period of the Renaissance, and of Renaissance humanism. Early career ...

* 1970 Professor

R. Longhi R. or r. may refer to: * ''Reign'', the period of time during which an Emperor, king, queen, etc., is ruler. * ''Rex'', abbreviated as R., the Latin word meaning King * ''Regina'', abbreviated as R., the Latin word meaning Queen * or , abbreviate ...

* 1971

R. Bianchi Bandinelli R. or r. may refer to: * ''Reign'', the period of time during which an Emperor, king, queen, etc., is ruler. * ''Rex'', abbreviated as R., the Latin word meaning King * ''Regina'', abbreviated as R., the Latin word meaning Queen * or , abbreviate ...

* 1972

J. Denis Mahon ''J. The Jewish News of Northern California'', formerly known as ''Jweekly'', is a weekly print newspaper in Northern California, with its online edition updated daily. It is owned and operated by San Francisco Jewish Community Publications In ...

* 1973 Professor

E. R. Vincent E is the fifth letter of the Latin alphabet. E or e may also refer to: Commerce and transportation * €, the symbol for the euro, the European Union's standard currency unit * ℮, the estimated sign, an EU symbol indicating that the wei ...

* 1974 Professor

N. Rubinstein N is the fourteenth letter of the Latin alphabet. N or n may also refer to: Mathematics * \mathbb, the set of natural numbers * N, the field norm * N for ''nullae'', a rare Roman numeral for zero * n, the size of a statistical sample Sci ...

* 1975 Professor

Eugenio Garin Eugenio Garin (May 9, 1909 – December 29, 2004) was an Italian philosopher and Renaissance historian. He was recognised as an authority on the cultural history of the Renaissance. Born at Rieti, Garin studied philosophy at the University of Flore ...

* 1976 Professor

Cecil Grayson Cecil Grayson, CBE, FBA (5 February 1920 – 29 April 1998) was an English Italian studies scholar. He was the Serena Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Oxford from 1958 to 1987. Life Career Born on 5 February 1920, Grayson ...

* 1977 Professor Augusto Campana * 1978 Professor

Wolfgang Lotz Wolfgang Lotz (6 January 1921 – 13 May 1993), who later adopted the Hebrew name Ze'ev Gur-Arie, was an Israeli spy in Egypt during the 1960s providing intelligence and conducting operations against Egyptian military scientists. He was arrest ...

* 1979 Professor

John Shearman John Kinder Gowran Shearman (pronounced "Sherman"; 24 June 1931 – 11 August 2003) was an English art historian who also taught in America. He was a specialist in Italian Renaissance painting, described by his colleague James S. Ackerman as " ...

* 1980 Professor

Massimo Pallottino Massimo Pallottino (9 November 1909 in Rome – 7 February 1995 in Rome) was an Italian archaeologist specializing in Etruscan civilization and art. Biography Pallottino was a student of Giulio Quirino Giglioli and worked early in his career o ...

* 1981 Professor

Giulio Einaudi Giulio Einaudi (; 2 January 1912 – 5 April 1999) was an Italian book publisher. The eponymous company that he founded in 1933 became "a European wellspring of fine literature, intellectual thought and political theory"Saxon, Wolfgang ''The New ...

* 1982 Professor

Paola Barocchi Paola is a female given name, the Italian form of the name Paula. Notable people with the name include: People In arts and entertainment *Paola Del Medico (born 1950), Swiss singer *Paola e Chiara, pop music duo consisting of two sisters born ...

* 1983 Professor

Franco Venturi Franco Venturi (Rome, 1914 - Turin, December 14, 1994) was an Italian historian, essayist and journalist, a scholar of the Enlightenment in Italy and of the history of Russia, and an anti-fascist active in the Resistance. Life In 1915, the year ...

* 1984 Professor

J. H. Whitfield ''J. The Jewish News of Northern California'', formerly known as ''Jweekly'', is a weekly print newspaper in Northern California, with its online edition updated daily. It is owned and operated by San Francisco Jewish Community Publications In ...

* 1985 Professor

Francis Haskell Francis James Herbert Haskell, (7 April 1928 – 18 January 2000) was an English art historian, whose writings placed emphasis on the social history of art. He wrote one of the first and most influential patronage studies, ''Patrons and Painter ...

* 1986 Sir John Hale * 1987 Christopher Seton-Watson * 1988 Dr

Philip Jones Philip, Phillip, Phil or Phill Jones may refer to: Sports *Phil Jones (American football) (born 1946), American football coach * Phil Jones (footballer, born 1961), English footballer who played for Sheffield United in the Football League * Phil J ...

* 1989 Sir

Harold Acton Sir Harold Mario Mitchell Acton (5 July 1904 – 27 February 1994) was a British writer, scholar, and aesthete who was a prominent member of the Bright Young Things. He wrote fiction, biography, history and autobiography. During his stay in ...

* 1990 Dr

Daniel Waley Daniel Philip Waley, (20 March 1921 – 25 May 2017) was a British historian, manuscript specialist, and professor. He was best known for his books on medieval history. Waley was educated at Dauntsey's School and King's College, Cambridge. Durin ...

* 1991 Professor

Brian Pullan Brian Sebastian Pullan, FBA (1935 - 16 Dec 2022) was a British historian and academic. He was Full Professor of Modern History at the University of Manchester from 1973 to 1998. After completing a BA and PhD at Trinity College, Cambridge, Pullan ...

, FBA, University of Manchester * 1992 Dr

J. I. R. Montagu ''J. The Jewish News of Northern California'', formerly known as ''Jweekly'', is a weekly print newspaper in Northern California, with its online edition updated daily. It is owned and operated by San Francisco Jewish Community Publications In ...

* 1993 Professor George Holmes * 1994 Professor

Patrick Boyde Patrick Boyde, FBA (born 1934) is a British Italianist and retired academic. He was Serena Professor of Italian at the University of Cambridge from 1981 to 2002 and has been a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, since 1966. Career Born in 1 ...

, FBA, University of Cambridge * 1995

Hugh Honour Hugh Honour FRSL (26 September 1927 – 19 May 2016) was a British art historian, known for his writing partnership with John Fleming. Their ''A World History of Art'' (a.k.a. ''The Visual Arts: A History''), is now in its seventh edition and ...

* 1996 Professor

Giovanni Aquilecchia Giovanni Aquilecchia, (known as Gianni) (28 November 1923 in Nettuno, Italy – 3 August 2001 in Camden, London, heart failure) was Professor of Italian at Bedford College, London, and the merged college with Royal Holloway, University of L ...

* 1997 Professor

Michael Mallett Michael may refer to: People * Michael (given name), a given name * Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael Given name "Michael" * Michael (archangel), ''first'' of God's archangels in the Jewish, Christian and ...

* 1998 Professor

J. A. Davis Jane Anthony Davis (September 2, 1821 – April 1855) was an American artist. Until 1981 she was known only as J. A. Davis. Davis was born Jane Anthony in Warwick, Rhode Island, the daughter of Giles Anthony and Sara Robinson Greene. In 1838, s ...

* 1999 Professor Michael Talbot * 2000 Professor

Giulio Lepschy Giulio Ciro Lepschy, FBA (born 14 January 1935) is an Italian academic. He was Professor of Italian at the University of Reading from 1975 to 1997. Born in 1935, Lepschy attended the University of Pisa and the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. H ...

, FBA * 2001 Professor Michael Hirst, FBA * 2002 Professor

John Woodhouse John Walker Woodhouse (28 January 188413 March 1955) was an Anglican suffragan bishop from 1945 until 1953. He was born on 28 January 1884 and educated at Charterhouse and University College, Oxford before embarking on an ecclesiastical care ...

* 2003 Professor

Stuart Woolf Stuart Joseph Woolf (23 January 1936 – 1 May 2021) was an English-Italian historian. Woolf was emeritus professor of contemporary history at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, where he had taught from 1996 to 2006. Prior to this he taught ...

* 2004 Professor

William Weaver William is a masculine given name of Norman French origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conq ...

* 2005

Ronald Lightbown Ronald Lightbown (1932–2021) was a noted British art historian and curator, specializing in Renaissance art. He wrote large monographs on the painters Sandro Botticelli and Carlo Crivelli. After a degree from the University of Cambridge, between ...

* 2006 Professor

Paul Ginsborg Paul Anthony Ginsborg (18 July 1945 – 11 May 2022) was a British historian. In the 1980s, he was Professor at the University of Siena; from 1992, he was Professor of Contemporary European History at the University of Florence. Education Gin ...

* 2007 Professor

Conor Fahy Conor is a male given name of Irish origin. The meaning of the name is "Lover of Wolves" or "Lover of Hounds". '' Conchobhar/Conchubhar'' or from the name '' Conaire'', found in Irish legend as the name of the high king Conaire Mór and other h ...

* 2008 Professor

Philip Gossett Philip Gossett (September 27, 1941 – June 12, 2017) was an American musicologist and historian, and Robert W. Reneker Distinguished Service Professor of Music at the University of Chicago. His lifelong interest in 19th-century Italian opera bega ...

, Robert W. Reneker Distinguished Service Professor of Music, University of Chicago and Professore Ordinario “di chiara fama”, Università “La Sapienza”, Rome * 2009 Professor

Giorgio Chittolini Giorgio may refer to: * Castel Giorgio, ''comune'' in Umbria, Italy * Giorgio (name), an Italian given name and surname * Giorgio Moroder, or Giorgio, Italian record producer ** ''Giorgio'' (album), an album by Giorgio Moroder * "Giorgio" (song), ...

, Professor of Medieval History, University of Milan * 2010 Professor Anna Laura Lepschy, Emeritus Professor, University College London * 2011 Professor

Patricia Fortini Brown Patricia Fortini Brown (born 16 November 1936) is Professor Emerita of Art & Archaeology at Princeton University. Venice and its empire, from the late middle ages through the early modern period, has been the primary site of her scholarly rese ...

, Emeritus Professor, Princeton University * 2012 Professor Richard Bellamy, University College London * 2013 Professor

Pier Vincenzo Mengaldo Seaside pleasure pier in England.html" ;"title="Brighton, England">Brighton, England. The first seaside piers were built in England in the early 19th century. A pier is a raised structure that rises above a body of water and usually juts out ...

, University of Padua * 2014

Chris Wickham Christopher John Wickham, (born 18 May 1950) is a British historian and academic. From 2005 to 2016, he was Chichele Professor of Medieval History at the University of Oxford and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford: he is now emeritus professor ...

, FBA, University of Oxford * 2015

Brian A'Hearn Brian (sometimes spelled Bryan in English) is a male given name of Irish and Breton origin, as well as a surname of Occitan origin. It is common in the English-speaking world. It is possible that the name is derived from an Old Celtic word meani ...

, University of Oxford * 2016

Geoffrey Nowell-Smith Geoffrey, Geoffroy, Geoff, etc., may refer to: People * Geoffrey (name), including a list of people with the name * Geoffroy (surname), including a list of people with the name * Geoffrey of Monmouth (c. 1095–c. 1155), clergyman and one of the ...

, Queen Mary University of London * 2017

Martin McLaughlin Martin L. McLaughlin is Professor of Italian and Agnelli-Serena Professor of Italian Studies in the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford where he is a Fellow of Magdalen College.Roger Parker Roger Parker (born London United Kingdom, 2 August 1951) is an English musicologist and, since January 2007, has been Thurston Dart Professor of Music at King's College London. His work has centred on opera. Between 2006 and 2010, while Profess ...

, FBA, King's College London * 2019 Professor John Foot, University of Bristol * 2020 Professor

Jill Kraye Jill is an English feminine given name, a short form of the name Jillian (Gillian), which in turn originates as a Middle English variant of Juliana, the feminine form of the name Julian. People with the given name *Jill Astbury, Australian res ...

"for her scholarship on Renaissance philosophy and humanism and the later European influence of classical philosophy (Aristotelianism, Platonism, Epicureanism and Stoicism)" * 2021 Professor Lucrezia Reichlin, FBA, London Business School

Sir Israel Gollancz Prize

The Sir Israel Gollancz Prize was created in 1924 as the Biennial Prize for English Literature. The name was changed to honour

Israel Gollancz Sir Israel Gollancz, FBA (13 July 1863 – 23 June 1930) was a scholar of early English literature and of Shakespeare. He was Professor of English Language and Literature at King's College, London, from 1903 to 1930. Gollancz was born 13 July 1 ...

after his death in 1930. It is "awarded biennially for work connected with Anglo-Saxon, Early English Language and Literature, English Philology, or the History of English Language". It is worth £400.

Wiley Prize in Economics

The Wiley Prize in Economics was established in 2013 and is sponsored by the publisher

Wiley Wiley may refer to: Locations * Wiley, Colorado, a U.S. town * Wiley, Pleasants County, West Virginia, U.S. * Wiley-Kaserne, a district of the city of Neu-Ulm, Germany People * Wiley (musician), British grime MC, rapper, and producer * Wiley Mi ...

; awarded annually, it recognises "achievement in research by an outstanding early career economist." The recipient is awarded £5,000."Wiley Prize in Psychology"
''British Academy''. Retrieved 13 May 2018. List of recipients * 2013:

Philipp Kircher Philipp is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: "Philipp" has also been a shortened version of Philippson, a German surname especially prevalent amongst German Jews and Dutch Jews. Surname * Adolf Philipp (1864 ...

, University of Edinburgh * 2014: Vasco Carvalho, University of Cambridge * 2015:

Johannes Spinnewijn Johannes is a Medieval Latin form of the personal name that usually appears as " John" in English language contexts. It is a variant of the Greek and Classical Latin variants (Ιωάννης, '' Ioannes''), itself derived from the Hebrew name '' ...

, London School of Economics and Political Science * 2016:

James Fenske James is a common English language surname and given name: *James (name), the typically masculine first name James * James (surname), various people with the last name James James or James City may also refer to: People * King James (disambiguati ...

, University of Warwick * 2017: Matthew Elliott, University of Cambridge * 2018:

Mirko Draca Mirko (Cyrillic script: Мирко) is a masculine given name of South Slavic origin. By Slavic etymology, the name is composed of the root ''mir'' (meaning peace) and hypocoristic suffix ''-ko'' usual in South Slavic languages, which together m ...

, University of Warwick

Wiley Prize in Psychology

The Wiley Prize in Psychology was established in 2009 and is made in partnership with the publisher Wiley; awarded annually, it recognises "lifetime achievement by an outstanding international scholar and promising early-career work by a UK-based psychologist, within 5 years of receipt of their doctorate." The award is given out to the former in odd years and the latter in even years. The recipient is awarded £5,000. List of recipients * 2009:

Martin Seligman Martin Elias Peter Seligman (; born August 12, 1942) is an American psychologist, educator, and author of self-help books. Seligman is a strong promoter within the scientific community of his theories of positive psychology and of well-being. H ...

, Albert A Fox Leadership Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Director of the University's Positive Psychology Center * 2010:

Essi Viding Essi Maria Viding FBA FMedSci is Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at University College London in the Faculty of Brain Sciences, where she co-directs the Developmental Risk and Resilience Unit, and an associate of King's College Londo ...

, Reader in Developmental Psychopathology, University College, London * 2011:

Michael Tomasello Michael Tomasello (born January 18, 1950) is an American developmental and comparative psychologist, as well as a linguist. He is professor of psychology at Duke University. Earning many prizes and awards from the end of the 1990s onward, he i ...

, Wolfgang Köhler Primate Research Center, Leipzig * 2012:

Yulia Kovas Yulia Kovas (born March 12, 1973) is a geneticist and psychologist - currently a professor of genetics and psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London , and a visiting professor at UCL, King's College, Sussex and New York universities - in the ...

, Goldsmiths, University of London * 2013:

Anne Treisman Anne Marie Treisman (née Taylor; 27 February 1935 – 9 February 2018) was an English psychologist who specialised in cognitive psychology. Treisman researched visual attention, object perception, and memory. One of her most influential ideas ...

, FBA FRS, Princeton University * 2014: Richard Cook, City University London * 2015:

Peter Fonagy Peter Fonagy, (born 14 August 1952) is a Hungarian-born British psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist. He studied clinical psychology at University College London. He is Professor of Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Developmental Science and H ...

, FBA, University College London * 2016:

Stephen Fleming Stephen Paul Fleming (born 1 April 1973) is a New Zealand cricket coach and former captain of the New Zealand national cricket team, who is the current head coach of Indian Premier League team Chennai Super Kings. He is considered one of the g ...

, University College London * 2017:

Stanislas Dehaene Stanislas Dehaene (born May 12, 1965) is a French author and cognitive neuroscientist whose research centers on a number of topics, including numerical cognition, the neural basis of reading and the neural correlates of consciousness. As of ...

, FBA, INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit * 2018:

Sarah Lloyd-Fox Sarah (born Sarai) is a biblical matriarch and prophetess, a major figure in Abrahamic religions. While different Abrahamic faiths portray her differently, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all depict her character similarly, as that of a pious ...

, Birkbeck, University of London; University of Cambridge

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