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 Toby Green FBA

Social and economic history of 15th-19th century Senegambia and West Africa; global inequality in the past and the present; the coloniality of global health; surveillance capitalism.

Toby Green FBA

Professor Sir Simon Schama FBA

Early modern European social, political and cultural history; history of the Jewish people; history of art and culture

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Professor Gerald Toomer FBA

The Republic of Letters in Europe in the 17th century, with especial reference to the history of scholarship

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