At its latest meeting on 3 February 2023, the RHS Council elected 44 Fellows, 32 Associate Fellows, 40 Members and 41 Postgraduate Members, a total of 157 people newly associated with the Society. We welcome them all.
The majority of the new Fellows hold academic appointments at universities, specialising in a very wide range of fields; but also include museum curators, librarians, heads of learned societies, teachers heritage consultants, and independent researchers and writers. The Society is an international community of historians and our latest intake includes Fellows from seven countries: Australia, Canada, Ireland, Norway, Portugal, the UK and United States.
Our latest intake includes a number of historians working outside History departments, in cognate disciplines in higher education (on this occasion, Art History, Library and Literary Studies, Musicology, Philosophy and Theology): a reminder that the Fellowship is open to all whose research provides a scholarly contribution to historical knowledge.
The new Associate Fellows include not only early career historians in higher education but also historians with professional and private research interests drawn from journalism, conservation, libraries and archives, public and community history and the diplomatic service.
The new Members have a similarly wide range of historical interests, and include individuals employed in universities, and as civil servants, teachers, librarians and lawyers – together with independent and community historians. Our new Postgraduate Members are studying for higher degrees in History, or related subjects, at 27 different universities in the UK, Canada, Italy and the United States. All those newly elected to the Fellowship and Membership bring a valuable range of expertise and experience to the Society.
February 2023 sees the admission of our seventh set of Associate Fellows and Postgraduate Members — two membership categories introduced in late 2021. These changes to membership (about which you can read more here) enable more historians to join the fellowship, and facilitate more focused support for RHS members at the start of their careers.
New Fellows and Members are elected at regular intervals through the year. The current application round is open and runs to Monday 10 April 2023, with the next closing date after this being Monday 5 June 2023. Further details on RHS Fellowship and Membership categories (Fellow, Associate Fellow, Member and Postgraduate Member); benefits of membership; deadlines for applications throughout 2023; and how to apply, are available here.
New Fellows, elected February 2023
- Paul Campbell
- Ian Campbell
- Debbie Challis
- Peter Collinge
- Roxana Coman
- Joseph Cronin
- Anthony Crowley
- Ben Dew
- Elena Draghici-Vasilescu
- Jane Draycott
- Noelle Dückmann Gallagher
- Jonathan Durrant
- Laura Eastlake
- Rob Ellis
- Stefan Fisher-Høyrem
- Darren Freebury-Jones
- Jane Freeland
- Alison Garden
- Jamie Gianoutsos
- Benjamin Guyer
- Trevor Herbert
- Laurence Johnson
- Jennifer Keating
- Rachel Kiddey
- Kevin Killeen
- Liam Lewis
- David Magalhães
- Ewen Misha
- Teresa O’Doherty
- Elodie Paillard
- Hugh Pattenden
- David Reagles
- Alexander Rose
- Pamela Scully
- Neil Tarrant
- Misha Teramura
- Alun Thomas
- Gyorgy Toth
- Colin Trodd
- Mark Vickers
- Tim Welch
- Philip Wood
- Eve Worth
- David Worthington
New Associate Fellows, elected February 2023
- Tayo Agunbiade
- Iram Ahmad
- Artemis Alexiou
- Krysten Blackstone
- Nicoletta Bruno
- Eddie Chaloner
- Danielle Claybrook
- Paul Crawford
- Christian Cuthbert
- Clayton Davis
- Scott de Groot
- Nicolo Ferrari
- Iker Itoiz Ciaurriz
- Terry Kilburn
- Michael Leek
- Peter Lythe
- William Mitchell
- Benjamin Morris
- Steve Ngo
- Daniel O’Brien
- Patrick O’Connor
- David Olvera Ayes
- Patrick B. Poland
- Casey Raeside
- Rose Roberto
- Elisabeth Salje
- Petros Spanou
- Harry Spillane
- Elin Tomos
- Ben Walsh
- Nicola Williams
- Lauren Young
New Members, elected February 2023
- Ernesto Juan Anaya
- Loraine Banner
- Gaverne Bennett
- Eleanor Braithwaite
- Jocelyn Cash
- Felix Cheah
- Oliver Clark
- Colin Coates
- Michela Cocolin
- Patrick Daigneault
- Mark Diamond
- Lindsay Ditkofsky
- Jennifer Ehrlich
- Eghosa Ekhator
- Jack Fairweather
- Mercy Fowler
- Tracey Gaitt
- Kyle Glover
- Tadhg Goodison
- Michael Hardman
- David Harvey
- Jens Hepper
- Samantha Hook
- Rongqi Li
- Nicolaus Martin
- Shelley Murphy
- Martin Pitts
- Edward Pryke
- Carol Quentin-Hicks
- David Rodenko
- John Sharman
- Manish Shrivastava
- Kelly Smith
- Ines Sousa
- Isarum Sriyingyong
- Andrés Urbano
- Susan Ward
- Nick Wood
- Jiarui Wu
- ChitShing Wu
New Postgraduate Members, elected February 2023
- Chloe Atkinson
- Phillip Baranick
- Sam Brady
- Emily Chambers
- Yi-Ying Chao
- Thomas Collins
- Helen Corlett
- David Cowan
- Calum Cunningham
- Shaun Cushley
- Raja Venkata Krishna Dandamudi
- Camilla de Koning
- Lewis Driver
- Howard Francis
- Lavinia Gambini
- Dionysios Giatras
- Hannah Gibbons
- Jasper Heeks
- Nausheen Hoosein
- Rebecca Irvine
- Nigel Jenkins
- Scott Keir
- Graham Kerr
- Emma Marshall
- Kay Rawson
- Autumn Reinhardt-Simpson
- Rosaria Sgueglia
- Pritam Singh
- David Spruce
- Jois Stansfield
- Ben Stemper
- Lily Tekseng
- Sara Tenneson
- Tiéphaine Thomason
- Katharine Waldron
- Nathan Websdale
- Rowan Whitcomb
- Eleanor Whitehead
- Tadeusz Wojtych
- Tsz Ho Wong
- Emma Wordsworth
HEADER IMAGE: Wine Drinking in a Spring Garden, c.1430, Attributed to Iran, possibly Tabriz, opaque watercolor and gold on undyed silk, Metropolitan Museum of art, New York, public domain