Professor Nicholas Canny FBA

History, especially the History of Early Modern Ireland, Britain and Europe and Atlantic History
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2005
Subjects
History

Current post

Emeritus Professor of History, National University of Ireland, Galway

Past appointments

Scientific Council, European Research Council

2012 - 2015

National University of Ireland Emeritus Professor of History

2009 -

Royal Irish Academy President

2008 - 2011

National University of Ireland Professor of History

1979 - 2009

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Pekka Johannes Hämäläinen FBA

Early and 19th-century North America; Indigenous, colonial, environmental, and borderlands history; comparative and global histories of empires, Indigenous and nomadic societies in world history

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Professor Lyndal Roper FBA

The social & cultural history of sixteenth & seventeenth century Germany; gender history; witchcraft; the German Reformation

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