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 Gareth Stedman Jones FBA
British and European history, particularly the history of political thought from the aftermath of the French Revolution to the First World War
Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty FBA
Modern South Asian culture and history; Postcolonial theory; the problem of Eurocentrism in historical thought; histories of history; climate change and the humanities; planetary histories
