British Academy Fellowship for Professor Guy Stroumsa

LMH’s Professor Emeritus of the Study of the Abrahamic Religions, Professor Guy Stroumsa, has been elected as an International Fellow of the British Academy, joining 29 other international colleagues elected this year. 

The British Academy is the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences, which seeks to advance these disciplines to grow a better understanding of the world around us. Each year, the British Academy announces up to 52 new UK-based Fellows and up to 30 new International Fellows  ̶  scholars outside the UK who have 'attained high international standing in any of the branches of study which it is the object of the Academy to promote'. 

Professor Stroumsa was Professor of the Study of the Abrahamic Religions at LMH from 2009-2013, prior to which he held the Martin Buber Chair in Comparative Religion at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His main research interests concern the religious history of the Mediterranean world and the Near East in late antiquity. His work analyses Jewish elements in various religious movements, such as the complex cultural relationship between Jews and Christians in late antiquity and in Byzantium. Professor Stroumsa also works on the history of the modern study of religions, from the sixteenth century on, focusing on the comparative study of the Abrahamic religions.