Professor Maxine Berg FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2004
- Subjects
- Economics, History
Summary
Maxine Berg is Professor of History at the University of Warwick (1998-present) and a Fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Historical Society and Academia Europaea. She is an Honorary Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford (2009-present), a Senior Member of Robinson College, Cambridge (2010-present) and an Associate Fellow of the Centre for History & Economics, University of Cambridge (2010-present). From 2010 to 2014 she was a European Research Council Fellow and served as the Director of the ERC Fellowship project Europe's Asian Centuries: Trading Eurasia 1600-1830. She served as Director of the Global History and Culture Centre from 2007 to 2010, as Director of the Eighteenth-Century Centre from 1998 to 2007 and was a Guggenheim Fellow from 2003-2004.
Current post
Professor of History, University of Warwick
Past appointments
London School of Economics and Political Science University of London Visiting Senior Fellow
2009 - 2010
Queen Mary University of London Visiting Senior Fellow
2009 - 2010
University of Warwick Professor of History
1998 -
Publications
Writing the History of the Global: Challenges for the 21st Century
Maxine Berg - Published in 2013 by Oxford University Press
Markets and Manufacture in Early Industrial Europe
Maxine Berg - Published in 1990 by Routledge
Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Maxine Berg - Published in 2005 by Oxford University Press
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Stephen Broadberry FBA
Economic history; development of the world economy since AD 1000; the Great Divergence; international comparisons of productivity; wars and economic performance
Professor Thomas Piketty FBA
Historical and theoretical work on the interplay between economic development, the distribution of income and wealth, and political conflict. These works have led to emphasise the role of political, social and fiscal institutions in the historical evolution of income and wealth distribution
Professor Georgina Hope Endfield FBA
Environmental humanities, climatic and environmental history; the impacts of and responses to unusual weather events and conceptualisations of climate and climate variability in historical perspective
