Linda J. Colley#
Membership Number: | 2838 |
Membership type: | FOREIGN |
Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
Elected: | 2010 |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2003 Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor of History, Princeton University
- 1998 - 2003 London School of Economics: Leverhulme Senior Research Professor and School Professor in History, Princeton University
- 1992 - 1998 Richard M.Colgate Professor of History, Yale University
- 1990 - 1992 Professor of History, Yale University
- 1985 - 1990 Tenured Associate Professor of History, Yale University
- 1982 - 1985 Assistant Professor of History, Yale University
- 1979 - 1982 Fellow and Lecturer in History, Christ’s College, Cambridge University
- 1978 - 1979 Joint Lectureship in History, King’s and Newnham Colleges, Cambridge University
Fields of Scholarship
- Early modern British and Atlantic social and political history
Honours and Awards
- 2009 Appointed a C.B.E. in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List (Diplomatic and Foreign Office section) for services to historical studies
- Honorary Fellowship, Christ’s College, Cambridge
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
- 2004 Fellow of the British Academy
- 1976 Research Fellowship, Huntington Library, California British Academy
- 1975 Eugenie Strong Research Fellowship, Girton College, Cambridge