Professor Marc David Baer, 2018-19: Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship Award
This award will allow Professor Baer, a scholar of the connected histories of Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Europe and Middle East, from the early modern era to the modern, to complete his work on the project “Guided by Goethe: German-Jewish Gay Muslim Writer Hugo Marcus, 1880-1966”. German Jew Hugo Marcus (1880-1966) is the only man to have played an important role in the world’s first gay rights movement and in establishing Islam in Europe. His life and work shed new light on the history of Islam in Europe, Muslim-Jewish relations, and the gay rights struggle. Despite his significance, Marcus is relatively unknown. What is published about him does not incorporate his being German, Jewish, Muslim, and gay. Professor Baer plans to utilise his twelve-month Leverhulme Research Fellowship to write the first biography of Marcus, based on his German-language publications, speeches, private correspondence, and personal documents.
Dr Joanna Lewis, 2018-19: Award winner of IGA-Rockefeller Grant
Dr Joanna Lewis was awarded an ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Institute of for two years to lead a project on Somalia, entitled “‘Pathways to Resilience’: The Role of an Urban Diaspora in Post-Conflict Reconstruction, London and Hargeisa, 1991 to the Present Day.” The project will be based at the Firoz Lalji ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Centre for Africa.
Dr David Motadel, 2018-19: Philip Leverhulme Prize Winner
Dr Ronald C. Po, 2017: ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Santander Travel Research Fund
Dr Po was awarded a ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Santander Travel Research Fund in December 2016 to visit universities in Hong Kong and South Korea, from late June to July 2017, where he gave talks and seminars. He also conducted archival research to develop his new project, entitled “A Global History of Camphor: From an Oleoresin to a Commodity", and attend two international conferences, namely the AAS-in-Asia Conference (in Seoul) and the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) in Chingmai. Both highly regarded in the field of Asian studies.