Dame Linda J. Colley#
| Membership Number: | 2838 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2010 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | https://history.princeton.edu/sites/g/files/toruqf5351/files/documents/ColleyCV2025-accessible.pdf |
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
- 2025 Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities
- 2023 Honorary Degree, University of Cambridge
- 2023 Honorary Fellowship, Girton College, Cambridge
- 2022 Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2022 Birthday Honours for services to history
- 2021 Honorary degree, University of Oxford
- 2019 Honorary degree DLitt, Queen's University Belfast
- 2012 Honorary degree, University of Hull
- 2009 Appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List (Diplomatic and Foreign Office section) for services to historical studies
- 2006 Honorary degree, University of Bristol
- 2005 Glaxo-Smith-Kline Senior Fellowship, National Humanities Center, North Carolina
- 2005 Honorary degree, University of East Anglia
- 2005 Honorary Fellowship, Christ’s College, Cambridge
- 2004 Honorary degree, University of Essex
- 1999 Fellow of the British Academy
- 1999 Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
- 1998 Leverhulme Senior Personal Research Professorship
- 1998 Honorary degree, London Southbank University
- 1993 Wolfson Prize
- 1988 Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
- 1983 Morse Fellowship, Yale University
- 1976 Research Fellowship, Huntington Library, California British Academy
- 1975 Eugenie Strong Research Fellowship, Girton College, Cambridge
