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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
Sections
Early Modern History to 1850
Website
http://www.nuigalway.ie/history/canny/

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

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Professor Javed Majeed FBA

Intellectual and literary history of colonial and postcolonial South Asia; colonialism, nationalism and literature; language politics and ideas of language in South Asia; Islam and colonialism; modern Urdu literature

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Professor Laurence Brockliss FBA

The history of education, science and medicine in Europe 1500-1914; the social history of knowledge creation and diffusion; the history of childhood

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Sir Noel Malcolm FBA

History Southern Europe Kosovo Early Modern History Intellectual History - History

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