Sir Richard Evans#
Membership Number: | 3935 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
Elected: | 2015 |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Homepage(s): | http://www.richardjevans.com |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 - present Provost of Gresham College in the City of London
- 2010 - 2017 President of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge
- 2008 - 2014 Regius Professor of History, University of Cambridge
- 1993 - 1998 Vice-Master, Birkbeck, University of London
- 1989 - 1998 Professor of History, Birkbeck, University of London
- 1989 - 2008 Professor of Modern History, University of Cambridge
- 1983 - 1989 Professor of European History, University of East Anglia, Norwich
- 1976 - 983 Lecturer in European History, University of East Anglia, Norwich
- 1972 - 1976 Lecturer in History, University of Stirling
Fields of Scholarship
- History of crime and punishment
- European history in the 19th and 20th centuries
- German history in the 19th and 20th centuries
- Theory of history
- History of medicine and disease
- Historiography
Honours and Awards
- 2015 British Academy Leverhulme Medal and Prize
- 2015 Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, University of Oxford
- 2015 Doctor of Letters, University of Cambridge
- 2014 Norton Medlicott Medal of the UK Historical Association, for services to history
- 2012 Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, University of LondonFell
- 2012 Knight Bachelor, for services to scholarship
- 2011 Honorary Fellow, Gonville and Caius College., Cambridge
- 2010 Founding Fellow, Learned Society of Wales
- 2008 Invited Participant, 4th Petra Conference of Nobel Laureates
- 2005 and 2006 History Honoree, Los Angeles Times Book Awards
- 2000 Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
- 1999 Honorary Fellow, Birkbeck, University of London
- 1998 Honorary Fellow, Jesus College, Oxford
- 1994 Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History
- 1993 Fellow of the British Academy
- 1993 Medal for Arts and Sciences of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
- 1989 William H Welch Medal of the American Association for the History of Medicine
- 1988 Wolfson History Prize
- 1978 Fellow of the Royal Historical Society