Professor Tina K. Ramnarine, from the Department of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London, has been elected to the British Academy Fellowship, in recognition of her contribution to the humanities and social sciences.
Founded in 1902, the British Academy is the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences. It is a Fellowship of over 1600 of the leading minds in these subjects from the UK and overseas.
A total of 86 Fellows – 52 UK Fellows, 30 Corresponding Fellows and 4 Honorary Fellows – have been nominated for election to the Fellowship in 2023.
Current Fellows include the classicist Professor Dame Mary Beard, the historian Professor Sir Simon Schama and philosopher Professor Baroness Onora O’Neill.
Previous fellows include the likes of Dame Frances Yates, Sir Winston Churchill, and Beatrice Webb.
Welcoming the Fellows, the President of the British Academy, Professor Julia Black, said: "It is with great pleasure that we welcome yet another outstanding cohort to the Academy’s Fellowship. The scope of research and expertise on display across our newly elected UK, Corresponding and Honorary Fellows shows the breadth and depth of knowledge and insight held by the British Academy and which we work hard to harness to help shape the world.
Professor Tina K. Ramnarine, from the Department of Music at Royal Holloway, expressed her gratitude at being elected, adding: “It is a great honour to be elected a Fellow of the British Academy. The institution supports scholarship that aims to understand the world around us, enrich public debate and shape the future. As an interdisciplinary researcher working across the Humanities and Social Sciences, I especially look forward to contributing my insights on arts responses to global challenges to the work of the British Academy.”
