Emeritus-Professor Harold Brookfield, Visiting Fellow in the Department of Anthropology, RSPAS, ANU, was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy at its 2009 annual meeting on 16 July. In this year, he is the only new Fellow with an Australian address. The British Academy writes the following about the Corresponding Fellowship:
“Corresponding Fellows are scholars living 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 [i.e. across the humanities and the social sciences]. This is taken to mean even greater distinction that that required for Ordinary Fellowships. Up to ten elections are made in each year to the Corresponding Fellowship. There are currently 307 Corresponding Fellows”.