Founded in 2008, the University of Buckingham’s Humanities Research Institute exists to bring together internationally distinguished scholars working in the field of the humanities, to support their research, and to engage them in the life of the University. The Institute’s Fellows and Visiting Professors are drawn from a wide variety of disciplines, but have notable concentrations in the areas of military history and security studies, political history, the history of art and connoisseurship, and nineteenth-century literature and social history. Major recent publications by Fellows include Simon Sebag-Montefiore’s Jerusalem: the Biography (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), published in February 2011, and Michael Burleigh’s Moral Combat: a History of World War II (HarperPress), published in 2010.
The Institute also fosters the development of innovatory graduate-student research programmes within the humanities. Since 2009, the Institute has promoted the launch of a series of London-based research programmes, which now include Military History, Modern War Studies, and Art History; and in October 2012, the Institute will see the launch of its latest programme, in Contemporary Art and Collecting. The Institute actively promotes academic and inter-disciplinary collaboration with other leading institutions, and over recent years has worked in association with the Wallace Collection, London, in the development of teaching and research in the study of the decorative arts and curatorship; with the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, in the development of the University’s new research programme in Modern War Studies; and with the Royal United Services Institute in the production of a major policy paper examining the lessons of history for the formulation of contemporary British strategy.
Full list of Fellows
The Institute is composed of some thirty Fellows in various categories, and supports a series of Visiting Professorships, with a particular focus in history, history of art, modern war studies and international relations. Click here for the full listing, which also provides short biographies and details of major and recent publications.
Humanities Research Institute Fellows: Recent Honours and Distinctions
In January 2012, Italy’s most prestigious award in the Humanities, the Nonino Prize, was awarded to Professor Michael Burleigh, Professorial Fellow in Modern History at the Institute. The prize was presented by the Nobel Laureate in Literature, Sir Vidia Naipaul, and the prize citation praised Professor Burleigh’s ‘deep historical analysis … extending from the times of the French Revolution to the present day’, hailing him as ‘master’ of the historical craft. Read full news article.
Professor Lloyd Clark‘s book Kursk: The Greatest Battle – Eastern Front 1943, has been nominated for the British Army Military Book of the Year Award, 2012.
Links
- Visiting Professor Simon Sebag-Montefiore discusses his new book:
Jerusalem: the Biography. - Professor Gwyn Prins’ paper, The British Way of Strategy-Making: Vital Lessons for Our Times (RUSI, October 2011).
