Prof Anne Fuchs, UCD; Prof Nicholas Canny, President of the Royal Irish Academy; and Prof Stephen Mennell, UCD
In recognition of their academic excellence, Prof Anne Fuchs and Prof Stephen Mennell have been elected members of the Royal Irish Academy (RIA). This is the highest academic honour available to scholars working in Ireland. Candidates for election must have made a significant contribution to scholarly or scientific research as shown in published academic work.
“The Academy's new members are amongst a small group of academics in Ireland that set the international hallmark of excellence in their fields of study,” said Prof Nicholas Canny, President of the Royal Irish Academy.
Anne Fuchs is Professor in Modern German Literature and Culture in the UCD School of Languages and Literatures. Her research areas include German cultural memory, German-Jewish literature, German modernism and travel writing.
Stephen Mennell is Professor of Sociology in the UCD School of Sociology, and was the founding director of what is now the UCD Geary Institute. His main research interest is comparative-historical sociology. His published books include All Manners of Food: Eating and Taste in England and France from the Middle Ages to the Present (1985), which was a pioneering study into the historical sociology of food and eating.
Lochlann Quinn, renowned businessman, UCD graduate, and member of the Board of the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business, was also admitted as a Member on 15 May 2009, alongside Dr Geraldine Kennedy, editor of The Irish Times and recipient of an honorary doctorate from UCD in 2008.
Membership of the Academy, which is by peer nomination and election, is limited to those scientists and scholars normally resident in Ireland.
