Jonathan Israel#
| Membership Number: | 2033 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2000 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.hs.ias.edu/israel |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2001 - present Modern European History Professor in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
- 1985 - 2000 Professor of Dutch History and Institutions, University College Londond
- 1981 - 1985 Reader in Modern History, University College London
- 1974 - 1981 Lecturer in Early Modern European History, University College London
- 1973 - 1974 Lecturer, University of Hull
- 1972 - 1973 Assistant lecturer, University of Hull
- 1970 Sir James Knott Research Fellow at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne
- 1972 D.Phil., Oxford University
Fields of Scholarship
- Dutch history
- European Jewry
- Age of Enlightenment
Honours and Awards
- 1986 Wolfson Literary Award for History 1986
- 1992 Fellow of the British Academy in 1992
- 1994 Corresponding Fellow of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences)
- 2001 American Historical Association’s Leo Gershoy Prize
- 2004 Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion in 2004
- 2008 Dr A.H. Heineken Prize prize for history, medicine, environmental studies and cognitive science
- 2010 Benjamin Franklin Medal by the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) for outstanding contribution to Enlightenment scholarship
