Professor Sir Ian Kershaw FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Emeritus Fellow
- Year elected
- 1991
- Subjects
- History
- Sections
- Modern History from 1850
Summary
Ian Kershaw began his career as a medievalist. After switching fields in the 1970s he concentrated on German history. Most recently he published the first of two planned volumes on the history of Europe in the 20th century for the Penguin History of Europe series. He is currently working on the second volume, to run from 1950 to the present. His books have been translated into more than 20 languages. He was awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz (Federal Cross of Merit)by Germany in 1994, and knighted in 2002.
Current post
Emeritus Professor of Modern History, The University of Sheffield
Past appointments
The University of Sheffield Professor of Modern History
1989 - 2008
The University of Sheffield Professor of Modern History
1989 - 2008
University of Nottingham Professor of Modern History
1987 - 1989
University of Nottingham Professor of Modern History
1987 - 1989
University of Manchester Lecturer
1968 - 1987
University of Manchester Lecturer
1968 - 1987
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Catherine Merridale FBA
The social, political and cultural history of Russia since the twelfth century, with a special interest in the twentieth century and in the lived experience and legacies of Stalinism
Professor Rebecca Earle FBA
History of food; colonial and 19th-century Spanish America; history of the body; colonialism, race and identity in early-modern Europe and the Americas; cultural nationalism in Spanish America; history of clothing
Professor Mary Fulbrook FBA
20th-century German social history; structures & legacies of the Third Reich and the German Democratic Republic (GDR); longer-term German and European history in comparative perspective; the Holocaust and collective violence; historical and social theory
