- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 1993
- Subjects
- History
- Website
- http://www.richardjevans.com/
Richard Evans was born in Woodford, London on 29 September 1947 and educated at Jesus and St Antony's Colleges, Oxford (MA and DPhil in Modern History, 1973). He served as Professor of European History at the University of East Anglia from 1983-89 then as Professor of History at Birbkeck, University of London from 1989-98. In 1998 he moved to the University of Cambridge, where he worked as Professor of Modern History from 1998-2008, as Regius Professor of History from 2008-16 and as President of Wolfson College from 2010-17.
Current post
Provost, Gresham College, London
Past appointments
Wolfson College, University of Cambridge President, Wolfson College; Provost, Gresham College, London
Jan 2010 -
University of Cambridge Regius Professor of Modern History, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College
Jan 1998 - Jan 2010
Birkbeck College University of London Professor of History
Jan 1989 - Jan 1998
University of East Anglia Professor of European History
Jan 1983 - Jan 1989
Publications
Rituals of Retribution
by Richard J. Evans - Published in 1996 by Penguin Books
