James Walvin#
| Membership Number: | 3820 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.york.ac.uk/history/people/honorary/james-walvin/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1966 - present Lecturer - Professor, Emeritus,University of York
- 1987 - 1988 Distinguished Kenan Professor in the Humanities, College of William and Mary, Virginia, U.S.A.
- Visiting Fellow:
- 1996 Australian National University
- 1998 University of the West Indies,(Barbados)
- 1999 La Trobe University
- 2000 Huntington Library
- 2010 Yale University
Fields of Scholarship
- Modern British Social History
- Slavery and the slave trade in Atlantic History
Honours and Awards
- Order of the British Empire. Awarded by H.M Queen Elizabeth II, 2008, "For Services to scholarship".
- 2008 D.Litt. University of York- St Johns
- A Conference in Honor of James Walvin Pioneering the History of Black Britain, November 12, 2010, Yale University
- Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, 1974, For book, Black and White, (London, 1973)
- 2009 Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, for services to literature
