John Healey becomes Fellow of the British Academy

A Professor of Semitic Studies from The University of Manchester is one of only 38 academics to be elected a Fellow of the British Academy at its Annual General Meeting on 21 July. John Healey is the latest scholar to add to the University's leading international reputation in Middle Eastern Studies going back to the 1940s. Other outstanding scholars include H. H. Rowley, James Barr, Edward Ullendorff, Charles Beckingham, Edmond Bosworth, Rex Smith and Philip Alexander. The prestigious Academy is the UK's national body for the promotion of the humanities and social sciences. It is an independent, self-governing body of more than 900 Fellows, including Marina Warner, Seamus Heaney, Eric Hobsbawm and Lord Bragg. The Academy's President, Sir Adam Roberts, said, 'I congratulate all the distinguished Fellows who have been elected to the Academy this year, on achieving this peer group recognition of the outstanding contribution they've made to scholarship and research in the humanities or social sciences.