Asa Briggs Visiting Fellows for 2017 announced

Asa Briggs Visiting Fellows for 2017 announced. Seven Asa Briggs Visiting Fellowship awards have been made to a prestigious group of international academics and Sussex faculty. Named after a 'founding father' of the University and its second Vice-Chancellor, this new scheme enables inward visits for internationally outstanding academic collaborations to work on specific projects with Sussex faculty. The scheme is designed to enable our researchers to engage in collaborative work with the best people in their field, regardless of their institutional base. Professor Michael Davies, Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research said: "The awarding panel were delighted with the quality of the cohort of inaugural Briggs Fellows who want to come here and work with Sussex faculty across the spectrum of our research strengths, from the humanities to the physical sciences." Asa Briggs Visiting Fellows for 2017 are: William D'Carrigan , Professor of History at Rowan University, will be collaborating with Professor Clive Webb , HAHP on the project Facing Down the Mob: Preventing Lynching in the United States, 1865-1965. The project will focus on resistance to mob violence in the United States during the 19th and 20th centuries. Christopher Miller , Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, will be collaborating with Professor Kathy Romer , MPS on the project Using Clusters of Galaxies to study the Dark Universe .