Robert Houston - Curriculum Vitae#
UNIVERSITY CAREER
ST ANDREWS UNIVERSITY, 1973-77:
- First class honours degree in Modern History (MA)
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, 1977-83:
- 1977-81, research student, History Faculty, holding SSRC research grant at the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure and a Peterhouse College research scholarship. During 1980-81 I was holder of the Ellen MacArthur studentship in social and economic history.
- Doctorate of Philosophy awarded August, 1981 for thesis entitled ‘Aspects of society in Scotland and north-east England, 1550-1750: social structure, literacy and geographical mobility’. Examined by R. S. Schofield and M. Anderson.
- 1981-83, research fellow, Clare College, Cambridge.
ST ANDREWS UNIVERSITY:
- September 1983-September 1993: Lecturer in Modern History.
- October 1993: Reader in Modern History.
- October 1995: Professor of Early Modern History.
ADDITIONAL POSITIONS HELD:
- April - June 1994: Visiting Professor, Faculteit der Historische en Kunstwetenschappen, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
- May 1996 - May 1997: Leverhulme Research Fellowship
- September - November 1996: ‘Distinguished Visiting Scholar’, Department of History, University of Adelaide
- September 2006 – September 2009: Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship
- October - November 2009: visiting fellow, Yale University
- August-September 2010: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow, Huntington Library
HONOURS
- Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, 1988-date
- Fellow of Academia Europaea (Humanities 1 – now ‘History and Archaeology’) 2001-date; section committee member 2010-2013
ADDITIONAL PRIZES AND AWARDS
- Runner-up for the Credit Communal Prize in European Urban History, 1995: Social change in the age of Enlightenment: Edinburgh, 1660-1760. Oxford University Press, 1994.
- Harold Grimm prize by the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, 1997 for ‘The consistory of the Scots church, Rotterdam: an aspect of ‘civic calvinism’ in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries’, Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte 87 (1996), 362-92.
PAPERS DELIVERED
- To conferences and research seminars in the universities of Adelaide, Amsterdam (Huizinga Institute), Belfast, Cambridge, Coleraine, Cork, Dublin, Durham, Edinburgh, Galway, Glasgow, Hitotsubashi (Tokyo), Hokkaido, Keio, Kyoto, Lancaster, Liverpool, London, Los Angeles, Manchester, Milan, Newcastle, Nijmegen, Paris, Tempe (Az.), Rotterdam, St Andrews, San Diego, Strathclyde, Toronto, Ulster, Utrecht, Yale, and Warwick.
MEMBERSHIP OF OUTSIDE BODIES AND EXTERNAL RECOGNITION
- Council of the Scottish Records Association, 1985-88
- Board of Advisers, Journal of British Studies (1991-5 inclusive)
- Association of Senior Historians: member, 1992-date; convenor, 1994-99.
- St Andrews representative, HELIX project (part of FIGIT funded programme to digitize and disseminate visual images), 1996-8
- CAIRNS (Co-operative Academic Information Retrieval Network for Scotland), 1998-9
- Editorial board, BBC History Magazine, 2002-date
- Australian Research Council (ARC) College of Experts: ‘expert of international standing’, April 2004-date
- Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), international assessment committee on 'Academy Professorships' (two per annum, tenable for five years)
- Founding editor of MacMillan/Palgrave series ‘Early Modern History: Society and Culture’ with the late Professor R. W. Scribner (formerly of Harvard) and Professor Edward Muir (Northwestern). Published (19 titles).
