Peter A. Clark#
| Membership Number: | 3001 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2011 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FINLAND |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2011 Emeritus Professor of European Urban History at Helsinki University
- 2007 Academy of Finland, Senior Scientist Fellowship
- Spring 2002, spring 2003, spring 2007 Visiting Fellow, Royal Belgian Academy
- 2000 Professor, European Urban History, Helsinki University
- 1999 - 2000 Research Fellow, Netherlands, Institute for Advanced Study
- 1987 - 1988 Fulbright Fellow, USA
- 1987 - 1988 Visiting Harrison Professor, William and Mary College, Virginia
- 1985 - 1999 Director of the Centre for Urban History, Leicester University
- 1975 - 1986 Lecturer, then Reader, in the Economic and Social History Department, Leicester University, Professor 1985-2000
- 1973 - 1975 Lecturer in History, Open University
- 1972 - 1973 Herodotus fellow, Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton
- 1969 - 1971 Lecturer in History, St Catherine’s College, Oxford
- 1968 - 1972 Fellow by Examination, Magdalen College, Oxford
- 1967 - 1968 Lecturer in History, University of York
Fields of Scholarship
- Environmental history
- Social history
- Economic history
- Urban history
- British history
Honours and Awards
- 2015 Foreign Member of the Royal Flemish Academy
- 2010 Doctor of Philosophy (honoris causa), Stockholm
- 2006 Foreign Member, Finnish Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1986 Fellow, Royal Historical Society
- 1984 Royal Historical Society Whitfield Prize
