Eight academics made Fellows of the British Academy

University | Arts 23 Jul 10 Eight Oxford University academics have been elected to a Fellows of the British Academy, the national academy for the humanities and social sciences. The new Fellows for 2010-11 are among 38 Fellowships announced by the British academy today (Friday 23 July). Oxford University's recipients are: Professor Eric Clarke is Heather Professor of Music, researches the psychology of music, music theory and musical aesthetics/semiotics and follows his research collaborator Professor John Sloboda who became a Fellow in 2004. He said: 'I hope to be able to make my own contribution to the exceptional multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary excellence that the Academy represents, and to add my voice to its robust defence of those values.' Professor Robert Gildea specialises in French and European history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has written on the impact of the German occupation in France and Europe during the Second World War and is directing a collaborative research project on 1968 in Europe. He said: 'I hope to contribute to the work of the Academy in three areas: encouraging research by graduates and academics in exciting and innovative fields of social, cultural and political history; developing international collaboration among historians; and defending history and the Humanities in general in an increasingly hostile environment.