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 Valerie Kivelson FBA

Early modern Russian history, history of cartography, empire, visuality, and witchcraft, with interests in politics, gender, and religion in Russia and in comparative perspective

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Professor Brian Cummings FBA

Renaissance humanism and European literature 1450-1700; the history of religion in relation to the history of the book; literary theory and the history of philosophy

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Professor Simon Schaffer FBA

Social & intellectual history of experimental philosophy & exact sciences between the seventeenth & nineteenth centuries; historiography & sociology of scientific knowledge; the sciences & European imperialism

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