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| Academy of Scholarly Studies | |
|---|---|
| Name | Academy of Scholarly Studies |
| Caption | Headquarters and library |
| Established | 1898 |
| Type | Independent learned society |
| Location | Oxford, United Kingdom |
| Director | Dr. Eleanor Hawkes |
Academy of Scholarly Studies is an independent learned society and residential research institute founded in 1898 in Oxford. It functions as a cross-disciplinary forum bringing together historians, scientists, jurists, and artists for prolonged research residencies, symposia, and publication projects. The Academy maintains collections, publishes monographs, and awards fellowships that have attracted figures from across Europe, North America, and Asia.
Founded in 1898 by a consortium including Baroness von Humboldt and Sir Reginald Ashcroft, the Academy emerged amid fin-de-siècle networks connecting Max Planck, Marie Curie, Oscar Wilde, Winston Churchill, and Arthur Conan Doyle through salons and correspondence. Early patrons comprised members of the Royal Society, British Museum, French Academy of Sciences, and the Prussian Academy of Sciences, while political figures such as Otto von Bismarck and Theodore Roosevelt appeared at public lectures. During the interwar period the Academy hosted émigré scholars from institutions like University of Göttingen, University of Vienna, and University of St. Petersburg and convened conferences attended by Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Sigmund Freud, and Émile Durkheim. World War II prompted relocation of archives to repositories affiliated with Library of Congress and Bibliothèque nationale de France, and after 1945 the Academy participated in rebuilding efforts alongside UNESCO and the European Cultural Foundation. In the Cold War era its programs connected researchers from Columbia University, Harvard University, Moscow State University, and Sciences Po. Recent decades saw partnerships and visiting appointments involving Princeton University, Stanford University, Tsinghua University, National University of Singapore, Max Planck Society, and the Smithsonian Institution.
The Academy’s charter emphasizes support for advanced study and public dissemination, aligning with principles endorsed by Royal Society, Académie française, American Philosophical Society, Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst. Governance is vested in a board drawn from trustees formerly associated with Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, UNESCO, Council of Europe, and national academies including Russian Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Sciences. Advisory committees have included laureates and awardees from Nobel Prize, Fields Medal, Pulitzer Prize, Turner Prize, and Templeton Prize. Ethical oversight references reports by World Health Organization, International Council on Archives, and International Council for Science.
Programs encompass residential fellowships, thematic seminars, doctoral mentoring, and publication series. Fellowships attract scholars previously affiliated with Yale University, University of Chicago, University of California, Berkeley, Columbia University, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, École Normale Supérieure, University of Tokyo, and University of Melbourne. Research clusters have produced work on topics connected to archives held at Vatican Library, Heritage Lottery Fund projects, and digitization collaborations with Europeana and the British Library. The Academy’s press issues monographs reviewed in journals such as Nature, The Lancet, The Economist, Journal of Modern History, and The American Historical Review. Visiting lecturers have included scholars with ties to Princeton University Press, Cambridge University Press, Bloomsbury, and awards from Royal Society of Literature.
Membership categories include senior fellows, junior fellows, associate researchers, and emeriti, with selection panels drawing from electoral rolls of Royal Society, British Academy, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Academia Europaea, and European Research Council. Selection criteria reference previous appointments at institutions like King’s College London, Imperial College London, Peking University, Seoul National University, University of Toronto, and McGill University, and success in grants from Wellcome Trust, National Science Foundation, European Research Council, and Humanities and Social Sciences Research Council. Honorary memberships have been conferred on figures including recipients of the Order of Merit, Order of the British Empire, Legion of Honour, and Order of the Rising Sun.
The campus includes restored Victorian buildings and modern research wings located near landmarks such as Radcliffe Camera and Bodleian Library. Facilities host an archive center modeled on best practices from National Archives (UK), a conservation laboratory influenced by protocols at Getty Conservation Institute, and seminar halls equipped for streaming with technologies used by BBC and European Broadcasting Union. Residential colleges on site mirror arrangements found at All Souls College, Oxford and include guest accommodations patterned after Institute for Advanced Study housing. The Academy’s museum stores artifacts comparable to holdings at Victoria and Albert Museum and conservation partnerships have involved Tate Modern.
Faculty and fellows historically include scholars and practitioners who also served at Harvard University, Princeton University, Stanford University, Yale University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Columbia University, ETH Zurich, Sorbonne University, and University of Cambridge. Alumni lists feature recipients of Nobel Prize laureates, Fields Medal winners, Pulitzer Prize winners, and heads of state formerly associated with United Nations, European Commission, and national ministries such as Foreign Office (UK), United States Department of State, and Ministry of Education (Japan). Visiting fellows have included artists and writers linked to Royal Academy of Arts, Hay Festival, Man Booker Prize, and critics from The New York Times and The Guardian.
The Academy maintains formal partnerships with institutions such as University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, Institute for Advanced Study, Max Planck Society, Humboldt Foundation, British Museum, Tate Britain, Smithsonian Institution, Getty Foundation, European University Institute, Wellcome Trust, British Council, Arts Council England, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Leverhulme Trust. Collaborative programs have led to joint conferences with United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and exchange schemes with Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and Korean Academy of Science and Technology.
Category:Learned societies