IAS Fellows – Michaelmas Term 2015
Professor Brian Belcher (Royal Roads University, Canada); holds the Tier 1 Canada
Research Chair in Sustainability Research Effectiveness and whose work research focuses
on understanding and improving the role and potential of natural resources to sustainably
contribute to rural development, and on research effectiveness.
Professor Barbara Dancygier (University of British Columbia, Canada); whose
interdisciplinary work combines interests in language, cognition, and multimodal forms of
communication.
Professor Heike Egner (Alpen-Adria University of Klagenfurt, Austria); has a strong interest in
the interrelations of society, humans and their environments, based on the theoretical
grounds of second-order systems theories, complexity theories as well as theory of
observation.
Professor James Gardner (University of Texas at Austin, USA); whose research broadly aims
to understand the causes and consequences of explosive eruptions of volcanoes. He is
collaborating with colleagues in the Department of Earth Sciences to integrate his research
findings with numerical and physical models of magma fluid dynamics.
Professor Ted Gup (Emerson College and Boston College, USA); author and journalist who
has written widely about government and public institutions, and is recognised as an authority
on the subject of secrecy and its impact on democracy.
Professor Penny Harvey (University of Manchester, UK); is an anthropologist who has
published widely on politics and power, on language, information and communications
technologies, and on knowledge practices with a particular focus on engineering practice and
technical expertise.
Professor Claire Langhamer (University of Sussex, UK); is a Modern British Historian whose
work deals with the diverse ways in which ordinary people negotiated modernity in the
twentieth-century.
Dr Jacob Stegenga (University of Victoria, Canada); is assistant Professor of Philosophy. His
area of research is philosophy of science, including methodological problems of medical
research, conceptual questions in evolutionary biology, and fundamental topics in reasoning
and rationality
Professor Carlo Vecce (Instituto Universitario Orientale, Italy); is a Renaissance Scholar
specialising on the History of Literature and Civilization and Professor of Italian Literature. He
is one of the most authoritative scholars in the field of early modern literary studies and an
acknowledged world authority on Leonardo da Vinci.
Professor George Williams (University of New South Wales, Australia); is one of Australia’s
leading constitutional lawyers and public commentators. He is engaged in a multiyear international project on anti-terror laws and democracy.