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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

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Dr Thomas Kaufmann FBA

History of Christianity in early modern period; theological and cultural history of the Reformation; history of the relations between Christian denominations, Judaism and Islam; history of church history

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Professor Ian Maclean FBA

History

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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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