Robert Houston#
| Membership Number: | 2078 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2001 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/staff/rabhouston.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1995 Professor of Early Modern History at St Andrews University
- 1993 - 1995 Reader in Modern History at St Andrews University
- 1983 - 1993 Lecturer in Modern History at St Andrews University
- 1981 - 1983 Research fellow at Clare College at Cambridge
- 1981 Doctorate of Philosophy at Cambridge University
- 1977 (MA)First class honours degree in Modern History at St Andrews University
Fields of Scholarship
- Social history of Britain
- Social history of Europe
- History of European literacy and education
- Population history of Britain
- History of psychiatry
- Economic history of Britain
- Specialization in the period c.1500-1850.
Honours and Awards
- Member of Council of the Scottish Records Association
- Member of the Board of Advisers at Journal of British Studies
- Member of Association of Senior Historians
- St Andrews representative at HELIX project
- Member of CAIRNS (Co-operative Academic Information Retrieval Network for Scotland)
- Member of Editorial board at BBC History Magazine
- Member of Australian Research Council (ARC) College of Experts: ‘expert of international standing’
- Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (1988)
- Founding editor of MacMillan/Palgrave series ‘Early Modern History: Society and Culture’
