Stuart Carroll
{{Short description|British historian (born 1965)}}
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Stuart Carroll, {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|FBA|FRHistS}} (born 1965) is a British historian and academic, who specialises in early modern Europe. Since 2007, he has been Professor of Early Modern History at the University of York.{{cite web |title=Stuart Carroll Professor of Early Modern History |url=https://www.york.ac.uk/history/people/carroll |website=Department of History |publisher=University of York |access-date=24 July 2024}}
Early life and education
Carroll was born in 1965 in Whitechapel, London, England.{{cite web |title=My blog |url=https://enmityandcivilsociety.hosted.york.ac.uk/ |website=enmityandcivilsociety.hosted.york.ac.uk |publisher=University of York |access-date=24 July 2024 |language=en}} He undertook his Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree at the University of Bristol and his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at the University of London.
Academic career
In 1992, Carroll joined the University of York as a lecturer in its Department of History.{{cite web |title=Curriculum Vitae |url=https://enmitycivilsociety.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/cv-2.pdf |website=enmityandcivilsociety.hosted.york.ac.uk |publisher=University of York |access-date=24 July 2024 |format=pdf |date=May 2022}} Having been previously promoted to senior lecturer, he was appointed Professor of Early Modern History in 2007. He served as Head of the Department at History from 2011 to 2015.
Honours
Carroll was awarded the J. Russell Major Prize of the American Historical Association in 2011 for the best French history book of the year for his Martyrs and Murderers: The Guise Family and the Making of Europe (2009).
In 2013, Carroll was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS).{{cite web |title=List of current Fellows |url=https://files.royalhistsoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/22174231/List-of-Fellows_May-2024.pdf |website=royalhistsoc.org |publisher=The Royal Historical Society |access-date=24 July 2024 |format=pdf |date=May 2024}} In 2024, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.{{cite web |title=The British Academy welcomes 86 new Fellows in 2024 |url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/the-british-academy-welcomes-86-new-fellows-in-2024/ |website=thebritishacademy.ac.uk |publisher=The British Academy |access-date=24 July 2024 |date=18 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240724115250/https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/the-british-academy-welcomes-86-new-fellows-in-2024/ |archive-date=24 July 2024}}
Selected publications
- Enmity and Violence in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
- Martyrs and Murderers: The Guise Family and the Making of Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Cultures of Violence: Interpersonal Violence in Historical Perspective (editor). Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Blood and Violence in Early Modern France. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Noble Power during the French Wars of Religion: the Guise Affinity and the Catholic Cause in Normandy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
References
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External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZtIxsMQYWQ Stuart Carroll on Homicide and the Civilizing Process.]
- [http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/likefire/strata-stuart-carroll Strata: Stuart Carroll.]
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Category:Historians of the University of York
Category:Alumni of the University of London
Category:Alumni of the University of Bristol
Category:Historians of the early modern period