Awards of the British Academy

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 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
 * Burkitt Medal for Biblical Studies
 * Derek Allen Prize (for numismatics, Celtic studies or musicology)
 * Edward Ullendorff Medal (for Semitic languages and Ethiopian studies)
 * Grahame Clark Medal (for prehistoric archaeology)
 * Kenyon Medal (for classical studies and archaeology)
 * Landscape Archaeology Medal
 * British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding
 * Neil and Saras Smith Medal for Linguistics
 * Peter Townsend Prize (for the sociology of poverty, ageing or health)
 * Rose Mary Crawshay Prize (for English literature scholarship; women only)
 * Serena Medal (for Italian studies)
 * Sir Israel Gollancz Prize (for English literature scholarship)
 * Wiley Prize in Economics
 * Wiley Prize in Psychology

Brian Barry Prize in Political Science
The Brian Barry Prize in Political Science is awarded jointly by the British Academy, the Cambridge University Press, and the British Journal of Political Science. It was named in honour of Brian Barry 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 It is awarded annually to an individual or group "for excellence in political science, as displayed in an unpublished essay".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 and Dr Lea Ypi, for 'Mandatory Citizenship for Immigrants'
 * 2015: Parashar Kulkarni, for 'Are There Cultural Prerequisites to Effective Property Rights?: Evidence from Inheritance Rights of Widows in Colonial India'
 * 2016: William Roberts Clark, Professor Matt Golder, and Professor Sona N. Golder, for 'An Exit, Voice, and Loyalty Model of Politics'
 * 2017: Jonathan White, for 'The Ethics of Political Alliance'
 * 2018: Zeynep Pamuk, of St John's College, Oxford, for 'Justifying Public Funding for Science.
 * 2019: Andre Santos Campos, for 'Representing the Future: The Interests of Future Persons in Representative Democracy'
 * 2020: Jonathan Havercroft, 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, 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, Celtic studies and musicology. Although awarded annually, the prize rotates between the three disciplines. Recipients are awarded £400.

Edward Ullendorff Medal
The Edward Ullendorff Medal was created in 2012 to honour Professor Edward Ullendorff, 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 and Ethiopian Studies".

List of recipients:


 * 2012: Simon Hopkins, FBA, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
 * 2013: Getatchew Haile, FBA, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library of Saint John's University, USA.
 * 2014: David Appleyard, School of African and Oriental Studies.
 * 2015: Siegbert Uhlig, University of Hamburg.
 * 2016: Sebastian Brock, FBA, University of Oxford.
 * 2017: Veronika Six, University of Hamburg.
 * 2018: John Huehnergard, The University of Texas at Austin
 * 2019: Michael Knibb, King's College London
 * 2020: Otto Jastrow, "for his leading scholarship in the field of Arabic and Neo-Aramaic spoken dialects"
 * 2021: Olga Kapeliuk
 * 2022: Werner Diem, Cologne University
 * 2023: Mauro Tosco, University of Turin
 * 2024: Sebastian Brock, University of Oxford

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 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
 * 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
 * 2020: Keith Branigan, "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. 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.

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 in 2013. It is awarded annually for "outstanding scholarly contributions to global cultural understanding". It is worth £25,000.

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 FBA
 * 2015: William Labov, "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 FBA, "for his significant contributions to the study of language universals, linguistic typology and language history"
 * 2018: Barbara Partee FBA (University of Massachusetts Amherst), for "her leading contributions to the study of semantics, syntax and pragmatics".
 * 2019: Deirdre Wilson FBA (University College London)
 * 2020: Paul Kiparsky FBA (Stanford University), for "his research on phonology and historical linguistics".
 * 2021: Marianne Mithun (University of California, Santa Barbara)
 * 2022: Sheila Blumstein (Brown University)

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.

List of recipients:


 * 2011: Julia Johnson, Sheena Rolph and Randall Smith for Residential Care Transformed: Revisiting 'The Last Refuge'
 * 2013: Tracy Shildrick, Professor Robert MacDonald, Colin Webster and Kayleigh Garthwaite for Poverty and Insecurity: Life in Low-Pay, No-Pay Britain
 * 2015: Andrew Sayer for Why We Can't Afford the Rich
 * 2017: Kayleigh Garthwaite 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 (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."

List of recipients:


 * 1920 Dr G. M. Trevelyan
 * 1921 Dr Paget Toynbee
 * 1922 Professor E. G. Gardner
 * 1923 Dr Horatio Brown
 * 1924 Edward Hutton
 * 1925 No award
 * 1926 Edward Armstrong
 * 1927 Benedetto Croce
 * 1928 Senatore Giovanni Gentile
 * 1929 No award
 * 1930 Commendatore Ettore Modigliani
 * 1931 Countess Martinego-Cesaresco
 * 1932 Professor Cesare Foligno
 * 1933 Professor Thomas Okey
 * 1934 Lord Rennell
 * 1935 Professor Mario Praz
 * 1936 No award
 * 1937 Professor G. de Sanctis
 * 1938 Eugénie Sellers Strong
 * 1939 No award
 * 1940 Evelyn M. Jamison
 * 1941 G. F.-H. Berkeley
 * 1942 Professor Gaetano Salvemini
 * 1943 Bernard Berenson
 * 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
 * 1952 No award
 * 1953 Professor Carlo Dionisotti
 * 1954 Professor Frederico Chabod
 * 1955 Lord Clark
 * 1956 Dr Umberto Zanotti-Bianco
 * 1957 Professor Rudolf Wittkower
 * 1958 Dr P. O. Kristeller
 * 1959 Professor Bruno Nardi
 * 1960 Denis Mack Smith
 * 1961 Sir John Pope-Hennessy
 * 1962 J. B. Ward-Perkins
 * 1963 Professor Johannes Wilde
 * 1964 No award
 * 1965 Professor Axel Boethius
 * 1966 Paola Zancani
 * 1967 Professor Edgar Wind
 * 1968 Professor Ludwig Heydenreich
 * 1969 Professor Roberto Weiss
 * 1970 Professor R. Longhi
 * 1971 R. Bianchi Bandinelli
 * 1972 J. Denis Mahon
 * 1973 Professor E. R. Vincent
 * 1974 Professor N. Rubinstein
 * 1975 Professor Eugenio Garin
 * 1976 Professor Cecil Grayson
 * 1977 Professor Augusto Campana
 * 1978 Professor Wolfgang Lotz
 * 1979 Professor John Shearman
 * 1980 Professor Massimo Pallottino
 * 1981 Professor Giulio Einaudi
 * 1982 Professor Paola Barocchi
 * 1983 Professor Franco Venturi
 * 1984 Professor J. H. Whitfield
 * 1985 Professor Francis Haskell
 * 1986 Sir John Hale
 * 1987 Christopher Seton-Watson
 * 1988 Dr Philip Jones
 * 1989 Sir Harold Acton
 * 1990 Dr Daniel Waley
 * 1991 Professor Brian Pullan, FBA, University of Manchester
 * 1992 Dr J. I. R. Montagu
 * 1993 Professor George Holmes
 * 1994 Professor Patrick Boyde, FBA, University of Cambridge
 * 1995 Hugh Honour
 * 1996 Professor Giovanni Aquilecchia
 * 1997 Professor Michael Mallett
 * 1998 Professor J. A. Davis
 * 1999 Professor Michael Talbot
 * 2000 Professor Giulio Lepschy, FBA
 * 2001 Professor Michael Hirst, FBA
 * 2002 Professor John Woodhouse
 * 2003 Professor Stuart Woolf
 * 2004 Professor William Weaver
 * 2005 Ronald Lightbown
 * 2006 Professor Paul Ginsborg
 * 2007 Professor Conor Fahy
 * 2008 Professor Philip Gossett, 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, Professor of Medieval History, University of Milan
 * 2010 Professor Anna Laura Lepschy, Emeritus Professor, University College London
 * 2011 Professor Patricia Fortini Brown, Emeritus Professor, Princeton University
 * 2012 Professor Richard Bellamy, University College London
 * 2013 Professor Pier Vincenzo Mengaldo, University of Padua
 * 2014 Chris Wickham, FBA, University of Oxford
 * 2015 Brian A'Hearn, University of Oxford
 * 2016 Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Queen Mary University of London
 * 2017 Martin McLaughlin, University of Oxford
 * 2018 Roger Parker, FBA, King's College London
 * 2019 Professor John Foot, University of Bristol
 * 2020 Professor Jill Kraye "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 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; awarded annually, it recognises "achievement in research by an outstanding early career economist." The recipient is awarded £5,000.

List of recipients


 * 2013: Philipp Kircher, University of Edinburgh
 * 2014: Vasco Carvalho, University of Cambridge
 * 2015: Johannes Spinnewijn, London School of Economics and Political Science
 * 2016: James Fenske, University of Warwick
 * 2017: Matthew Elliott, University of Cambridge
 * 2018: Mirko Draca, 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, Albert A Fox Leadership Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Director of the University's Positive Psychology Center
 * 2010: Essi Viding, Reader in Developmental Psychopathology, University College, London
 * 2011: Michael Tomasello, Wolfgang Köhler Primate Research Center, Leipzig
 * 2012: Yulia Kovas, Goldsmiths, University of London
 * 2013: Anne Treisman, FBA FRS, Princeton University
 * 2014: Richard Cook, City University London
 * 2015: Peter Fonagy, FBA, University College London
 * 2016: Stephen Fleming, University College London
 * 2017: Stanislas Dehaene, FBA, INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit
 * 2018: Sarah Lloyd-Fox, Birkbeck, University of London; University of Cambridge