At its latest meeting on 7 February 2025, the RHS Council elected 47 Fellows, 35 Associate Fellows, 49 Members and 86 Postgraduate Members, a total of 215 people newly associated with the Society, from today.
The majority of the new Fellows hold academic appointments at universities, specialising in a wide range of fields; but also include curators, librarians, heritage specialists, independent researchers and writers. The Society is an international community of historians and our latest intake includes Fellows from nine countries: Australia, Canada, Germany, Malta, Poland, Sweden, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
The new Associate Fellows include not only early career historians in higher education but also historians with professional and private research interests drawn from heritage, learned societies, libraries and archives, teaching, and public and community history.
The new Members have a similarly wide range of historical interests, and include individuals working in universities, culture and heritage, education, the civil service and broadcasting – together with independent and community historians and genealogists.
Our new Postgraduate Members are studying for higher degrees in History, or related subjects, at 45 different universities in the UK, Australia, Canada, China, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Taiwan, and the United States.
All those newly elected to the Fellowship and Membership bring a valuable range of expertise and experience to the Society.
New Fellows and Members are elected at regular intervals through the year. The current application round is open and runs to 24 March 2025 with the next deadline being 26 May 2025. Further details on RHS Fellowship and Membership categories (Fellow, Associate Fellow, Member and Postgraduate Member); benefits of membership; deadlines for applications; and how to apply, are available here.
New Fellows, elected February 2025
- Shahmima Akhtar
- Tim Allender
- Marie Allitt
- Michelle Arrow
- Callum Barrell
- Jonas Berthod
- Lino Bianco
- Randy Browne
- David Callander
- Brycchan Carey
- Maurice J. Casey
- Amal Chatterjee
- Suryakanthie Chetty
- Nancy Cushing
- Stuart Elden
- Paul Ellison
- Richard Firth-Godbehere
- Matthew Ford
- Sally Frampton
- Matthew Gabriele
- Midge Gillies
- Alasdair Grant
- Louise Hampson
- Jack Hodgson
- Mohammed Kharshan
- Łukasz Korporowicz
- Sumantra Maitra
- Henry Midgley
- Moritz Mihatsch
- Jonah Miller
- Julian Molina
- Sophie Nicholls
- Nikki Taylor
- Beatrice Penati
- Charlotte Purkis
- Joanna Pylat
- Ian Rapley
- Natasha Ruiz-Gómez
- Matthew Rule-Jones
- David Santiuste
- Tehila Sasson
- Richard Stone
- Laurie Stras
- Katharine Sykes
- Lorna Waddington
- Angus Wallace
- Rowan Watson
- Chris Williams
- Jenny Woodley
- Susannah Wright
- Arash Zeini
New Associate Fellows, elected February 2025
- Evren Altinkas
- Valentina Boretti
- Katherine Burns
- Nancy Calvert-Koyzis
- Sara Camacho Felix
- Ka-lai Chan
- Qiuyang Chen
- Carly Collier
- John Curatola
- Ana del Campo
- Caroline Douglas
- Paul Dudman
- Saffron East
- James Fox
- Carol Grose
- Helen Hickey
- Damian Kell
- Megan King
- Fabian Krautwald
- Oleksandr Kravchuk
- Kate Lawton
- Carrie Long
- Susannah Lyon-Whaley
- Marzia Maccaferri
- Chloë McKenzie
- Stephen Moore
- Rebecca Morrison
- Joanne Norcup
- Olusegun Olaniyi
- Jonathan Powell
- Catherine Scheybeler
- Lili Scott Lintott
- Gillian Stewart
- James Tuck
- Samantha Woodward
- Ahamad Jama’ Amin Yang
New Members, elected February 2025
- Ronald Aitchison
- Cameron Aitken
- Anne Ambrose
- Ayuub Amin
- Darrell Ashworth
- Peter Barber
- Peter Barrett
- Vladyslav Besedovskyy
- Julie-anne Birch
- Florian Burnat
- Peter Cairney
- Michael Carrier
- Alan Chadwick
- Claudio Chittaro
- David Clark
- Pedro Coelho
- Alessio Corbo
- Daniel E Long
- Lindsay Hardcastle
- Daniëlle Harens
- Gareth Hill
- Phil Jeffery
- Trent E. Kane
- Ignatios Kranidiotis
- Valeriy Lukanov
- Ian McGeachie
- George Mcleavy
- Jared Meade
- Zoe Melabianaki
- Simon Moore
- Brian Nicholls
- Oluwaferanmi Odejayi
- Bidyut Patar
- Leon Pätzold
- Morag Peers
- Kurtis Pope
- Sophie Quill
- Kimberly Qvale
- Patrick Russell
- Evan Shereshevsky
- Jonathan Smith
- Jake Smith
- Barbara Stewart-Evans
- William Thatcher
- Neil Thomas
- Ian Urquhart
- Beautiful A’Queen Valverde-Priester
- Colin van Geffen
- Harry Veness
- Wenjun Wang
- Ashley A Waterhouse
- Nicholas Wells
- Matthew Weston
- Leah Williams-McIntosh
- Charlotte Wood
New Postgraduate Members, elected February 2025
- Lucy Allan
- James Allen
- Mark Allen
- Sally Ames
- Janet Barrie
- Sthira Bhattacharya
- Jacobin Bosman
- Frederick Bricknell
- David Brown
- Jake Brown
- Peter Burrows
- Onuralp Çakır
- Jamie-Lukas Campbell
- Tara Chilcott
- Raghav Chopra
- Deborah Cooban
- Shibani Das
- Camilla de Koning
- Emily Deal
- Wanxin Du
- Munazza Ebtikar
- Marisa Filipe
- Michael George
- Alice Goldsney
- Excy Hansda
- William Hatfield
- Josef Havránek
- Isobel Hogan
- Cameron Huggett
- Ali Izzatdust
- Caroline Kreysel
- Samantha Lanevi
- Yuetong Li
- Zhen Hao Liew
- Katherine Mackinnon
- Sadie Mansfield
- George Marten
- Ajith Maruthaveeran
- Olivia McCabe
- Victoria McIntyre
- Sara McQuaid
- Benoit Abraão Mes
- Supriya Misra
- Jim Morris
- Helen Murphy
- Isabelle Nagle
- Yari Nayam
- Chinweuju Nzewi
- Friday Ogunretin
- Stephen Oliver
- Isabella Ozuna
- Ruoran Pei
- Elisabeth Phillips
- John Pullin
- Claudia Renzi
- Jane Riddell
- Lea Cecelia Sejdiu
- Ian Smith
- Mitchel Stuffers
- John Sullivan
- Simon Tacke
- Geoffrey Torry
- Kento Umeda
- Joanne Watson
- Bethan Watts
- Ming Kit Wong
- Tristan Wood
- Hannah Wygiera
- Siyuan Yang
- Jamie Yee
- Yu Hsuan Yeh
- Weiyu Yuan
- Ζoe Τsiami
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