Joseph Bergin#
| Membership Number: | 3230 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Present and Previous Positions
- Professor Emeritus
- 1996 - 2011 Professor of History, University of Manchester, UK
- 1992 - 1996 Reader in History, University of Manchester
- 1988 - 1992 Senior Lecturer in History, University of Manchester
- 1978 - 1988 Lecturer in History, University of Manchester
- 1976 - 1978 Lecturer in History, St Patrick's College, Maynooth, Ireland
Fields of Scholarship
- Early modern history
- History of France from the later sixteenth century to the early eighteenth century
- Social, political and religious history
- Cardinal Richelieu, the French church and the higher clergy generally within French political system
Honours and Awards
- 2011 - Correspondant étranger, Institut de France (Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres)
- 2010 - Officier dans l'ordre des Palmes Académiques
- 2010- Richelieu silver Medal, Université de Sorbonne-Paris-I, for ensemble of research and scholarly output
- 2010 - Médailles des Antiquités de France, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres for book on Church, society and religious change in France 1580-1730 (Yale UP, 2009)
- 2004 - Doctor of Letters (not h.c.), University of Manchester, in recognition of quality of scholarly work.
- 2000-2003 - Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship
- 1996 - Fellow of the British Academy
- 1994 - Prix Richelieu (Rueil-Malmaison Salon de l'Histoire)
- 1988 - Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
