At its latest meeting on 16 September 2022, the RHS Council elected 64 Fellows, 59 Associate Fellows, 57 Members and 59 Postgraduate Members, a total of 239 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 curators, teachers, and independent researchers and writers. The Society is an international community of historians and our latest intake includes Fellows from Australia, India, Ireland, Spain and the United States.
Our latest intake includes a number of historians working outside History departments, in cognate disciplines in higher education: 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 broadcasting, archives, museums and teaching.
The new Members have a similarly wide range of historical interests, and include individuals employed in universities, and as bankers, civil servants, the clergy, lawyers and members of the judiciary and teachers – together with independent and community historians. Our new Postgraduate Members are studying for higher degrees in History, or related subjects, at 30 different universities in the UK, China, Germany, Ghana, Singapore and the United States. All those newly elected to the Fellowship and Membership bring a valuable range of expertise and experience to the Society.
September 2022 sees the admission of our fifth set of Associate Fellows and Postgraduate Members — two new 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 31 October 2022, with the next closing date being Friday 13 January 2023. Further details on RHS Fellowship and Membership categories (Fellow, Associate Fellow, Member and Postgraduate Member), the benefits of membership (including new benefits added from August 2022), deadlines for applications throughout 2023, and how to apply, are available here.
New Fellows, elected September 2022
- Timothy Alborn
- Athanasios Antonopoulos
- Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay
- Gordon Barclay
- Jochen Burgtorf
- John Burke
- Stephen Catterall
- Jessie Childs
- Stephen Clarke
- Sophie Cooper
- Alexander Craven
- Sonya Cronin
- William Dalrymple
- Callan Davies
- Sara Dominici
- Scott Eaton
- Amy Edwards
- Penelope Edwards
- Francisco Eissa-Barroso
- Corisande Fenwick
- Fernanda Gallo
- Austin Glatthorn
- Felicia Gottmann
- Zoe Groves
- Tanya Harmer
- Felicity Hill
- Matthew Alan Hill
- Sarah Irving
- Martin Johnes
- Emma Kay
- Jill Kirby
- Daniel Knowles
- Alice Leonard
- Amy Livingstone
- Simon Mahony
- James Mansell
- Katharine Massam
- David McInnis
- Marcus Meer
- Gavin Miller
- Gillian Mitchell
- Alexia Moncrieff
- Eva Moreda Rodríguez
- Federico Paolini
- Simon Parkin
- Chelsea Phillips
- Lydia Plath
- Tanja Poppelreuter
- Matthew Powell
- Lynda Pratt
- Eoin Price
- Dieter Reinisch
- Stephen Ridgwell
- Jesús Sanjurjo
- Jayita Sarkar
- Leo Shipp
- Rebecca Simon
- Elaine Sisson
- Jean Smith
- Agnieszka Sobocinska
- Kenneth Stewart
- Nino Strachey
- Tom Ue
- Samuel Garrett Zeitlin
New Associate Fellows, elected September 2022
- Rowena Abdul Razak
- SJ Allen
- Alan Anderson
- Ed Armston-Sheret
- Matthew Ball
- Gad Barnea
- Lisa Berry-Waite
- Tobias Bowman
- John Broom
- Hayley Brown
- Esther Brown
- Anna Cusack
- Wim De Winter
- Iain Farquharson
- Rosaria Franco
- Pauline Gardiner
- Milo Gough
- Tim Guile
- Gabriel Gurian
- Julia Hamilton
- Terra Han
- Antony Harvey
- Matthew Hedges
- Joseph Higgins
- Deb Hunter
- Baher Ibrahim
- Emily Ireland
- Malarvizhi Jayanth
- David Jones
- Sebastian Jones
- Kathryn Lamontagne
- Christopher Lewis
- Sundeep Lidher
- Mark Liebenrood
- Rosanagh Mack
- Nenad Marković
- Eva Charlotta Mebius
- Debora Moretti
- George Morris
- Janet Morrison
- Anna Muggeridge
- Levin Opiyo
- Manolis Pagkalos
- Chris Perry
- Stuart Pracy
- Richard Purkiss
- Maurice Robinson
- Linda Ross
- Vincent Roy-Di Piazza
- Kanika Sharma
- Gabrielle Storey
- James Taylor
- Floris van Swet
- Robert Wilde-Evans
- David Williamson
- Jon Winder
- Malgorzata Wloszycka
- Lucy Wray
- Xuduo Zhao
New Members, elected September 2022
- John Allen
- Muhammad Ashraf
- Tom Baldwin
- Ruman Banerjee
- Jennifer Barlow
- Tyler Bender
- Lara Bevan-Shiraz
- Luca Boschetti
- John Chan
- Kim Cliett Long
- Lucy Coatman
- Rory Cooper
- Eleanor Coppard
- Ian Davidson
- James Edwards
- John Leopoldo Fiorilla di Santa Croce
- Gordon Fisher
- Kate Gibson
- Michael Gillibrand
- Adhila Hameed
- Chengwei Han
- Graham Haynes
- Elaine Huggett
- James Humphrey
- Malcolm Johnston
- Matteo Lai
- Chi Lau
- Barry MacNeill
- Laura Leigh Majernik
- Birahim Mbow
- Hanjia Miao
- Leonardo Monno
- David Moshier
- Ernest Mudzengerere
- Frederick Newell
- Ali Nihat
- Michal Fryderyk Nowacki
- Finnian Orders
- David Owen-Jones
- Kannen Ramsamy
- Ian Rummery
- Christopher Said
- Steffi Santhana Mary
- Stephanie Saunders
- Simon Scruton
- Vinod Sharma
- Zhe Tian
- Khosrow Tousi
- David Vanegas
- Andrew Varga
- Ioannis Vougioukas
- James Watson
- Richard Whitaker
- Karen Witt
- Zehan Zhang
New Postgraduate Members, elected September 2022
- Tristan Alphey
- Sydney Arnold
- Mathew Ayamdoo
- Jennifer Baillie
- Daniel Banks
- Sarah Bernhardt
- Tom Brautigam
- Janette Bright
- Michelle Castelletti
- Santorri Chamley
- Ying Sum Chan
- Francesca Chappell
- Ram Choudhury
- Natali Cinelli Moreira
- Scott Connors
- Mairead Costello
- Amber Cross
- Henry Daramola-Martin
- Clemmie de la Poer Beresford
- Chris Doyen
- Kim Embrey
- Nicholas Fitzhenry
- Jamie Gemmell
- Rebecca Goldsmith
- Irene Hallyburton
- Julia Helman
- Ho Hin Ho
- Gemma Jackson
- David Karoon
- Urvi Khaitan
- Henna Khanom
- Emma Kiey
- Louis Kill-Brown
- Thomas Kingston
- Daniel MacDonald
- Micah Mackay
- Perseverence Madhuku
- Joshua Madrid
- Jayne Martin
- Graham Moore
- Erin Newman
- Alison Norton
- Raphael Oidtmann
- Allan Pang
- Kirsten Parkin
- Ahmed Patrick-Lalljee
- Ann Pomphrey
- Ollie Randall
- Robert Runacres
- Beckie Rutherford
- Victoria Sands
- Alexander Sherborne
- Caitlín Smith
- Avery Sprey
- Sadie Sunderland
- Joanne Watson
- Grace Whorrall-Campbell
- Gary Willis
- Xiwen Yang
Header Image: Turquoise Bowl with Lute Player and Audience, attributed Iran, late 12th–early 13th century, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, public domain.