Roy Foster#
| Membership Number: | 4266 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.hertford.ox.ac.uk/about/people/professor-roy-foster |
Present and Previous Positions
- Professor Emeritus
- 1991 - 2016 Carroll Professor of Irish History, University of Oxford, and Fellow of Hertford College
- 1988 - 1991 Professor of Modern British History, Birkbeck College, University of London, (previously Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader at Birkbeck)
Fields of Scholarship
- Modern Irish history
- Biography
- Anglo-Irish literature
Honours and Awards
- 1979 Fellow of Royal Historical Society
- 1982 Irish Post Community Award, for distinguished achievement among the Irish in Britain
- 1988 Irish Life Arts Award for History
- 1989 Elected Fellow of British Academy
- 1992 Elected Fellow of Royal Society of Literature
- 1997 Hon. D. Litt., University of Aberdeen
- 1998 Hon D. Litt., Queen's University, Belfast
- 1998 James Tait Black Prize for Biography
- 2002 M.L.Rosenthal Award from Yeats Society of New York
- 2003 Hon D.Litt from Trinity College, Dublin
- 2003 Christian Gauss Award for literary criticism from the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Washington DC [for The Irish Story: Telling Tales and Making It Up in Ireland]
- 2004 Hon D. Litt from National University of Ireland
- 2006 Hon Fellowship Birkbeck College, University of London
- 2007 Hon Doctorate of Laws, Queen’s University, Ontario
- 2010 Elected Honorary Member of Royal Irish Academy
- 2011 James Joyce Award, from Literary and Historical Society of University College Dublin, for contribution to Irish intellectual life
- 2012 Hon D Litt from University of Edinburgh conferred November 2013.
- 2015 British Academy Medal for Vivid Faces: the Revolutionary Generation in Ireland [awarded for " a landmark academic achievement, in any of the disciplines supported by the Academy, which has transformed understanding of a particular subject or field of study"]
