Nicholas Canny
Professor Nicholas Canny, is Director of the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities at National University of Ireland, Galway, and President of the Royal Academy. His 1976 study The Elizabethan Conquest of Ireland: a Pattern Established, 1565-76 brought him to international attention. It was awarded the Irish Historical Research prize, as was his more recent work on Irish History Making Ireland British, 1580-1650 (Oxford, 2001). He has also published extensively on Europe’s relations with the wider world, including The Origins of Empire which he edited as the first volume The Oxford History of the British Empire. His next book the Oxford Handbook of Atlantic History, c 1450-c1840, which he has co-edited with Philip Morgan of Johns Hopkins University, will be published March 2011. He is currently working on a book comparing French with English writing on the Natural History of the Atlantic World from 1550 to 1720.
Nicholas Canny has held post-doctoral appointments at Harvard and Yale universities. at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies. He served in Spring 2005 as professeur invité at the École des Hautes Études, Paris and in 2005-6 Parnell Senior Research Fellow at Magdalene College Cambridge, He was in 1995, elected member of the Academia Europaea, in 2005 as a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, and in 2007 as a Member of the American Philosophical Society.
