Felipe Fernández-Armesto#
Membership Number: | 3010 |
Membership type: | FOREIGN |
Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
Elected: | 2011 |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
Homepage(s): | https://history.nd.edu/people/felipe-fernandez-armesto/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009 William P. Reynolds Chair for Mission in Arts and Letters, Department of History, University of Notre Dame
- Chair at Tufts University
- Chair in environmental history at the University of London (Queen Mary College)
- Oxford University and occupied a
- Charterhouse School in Godalming, Surrey
Fields of Scholarship
- Empires & colonialism
- History of language
- History of human and non-human cultures
Honours and Awards
- John Carter Brown Medal
- Caird Medal of the National Maritime Museum (UK)
- Tercentenary Medal of the Society of Antiquaries of London
- 2008 Universidad de los Andes, honorary doctorate
- Honorary doctorate from La Trobe University
- 2007 World History Association Book Prize and Tercentenary Medal of the Society of Antiquaries
- 2008 - 2010 Major grant from the Fundación del Pino, Madrid
- 2010 Reina Victoria Eugenia Distinguished Visiting Chair, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
- 2017 Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X, Spain's highest honour for contributors to science, scholarship, education, and the arts