At its latest meeting on 5 May 2023, the RHS Council elected 110 Fellows, 59 Associate Fellows, 57 Members and 89 Postgraduate Members, a total of 315 people newly associated with the Society.
The majority of the new Fellows hold academic appointments at universities, specialising in a very wide range of fields; but also include museum directors and curators, librarians, heads of learned societies, heritage consultants, and independent researchers and writers. The Society is an international community of historians and our latest intake includes Fellows from twelve countries: Australia, Canada, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, and the United States.
Our latest intake includes a number of historians working outside History departments, in cognate disciplines in higher education (on this occasion, Archaeology, the Built Environment, Art History, Museum 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 broadcasting and journalism, conservation, libraries and archives, publishing, public and community history and teaching.
The new Members have a similarly wide range of historical interests, and include individuals employed in universities, and as civil servants, historical guides, museum managers, 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 45 different universities in the UK, Canada, France, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Norway, South Africa 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 5 June 2023, with the next closing date after this being 14 August 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 May 2023
- Síobhra Aiken
- Samuel Aylett
- Graham Barrett
- Geoffrey Belknap
- Bill Bell
- Caroline Bertoneche
- Carole Biggam
- Uilleam Blacker
- Cristina Blanco Sío-López
- Frank Blazich
- Jasmine Calver
- William Carruthers
- Louise Clare
- Paul Cockerham
- Gregory Conti
- Jack Crangle
- Huw Davies
- Leanda de Lisle
- Jennifer Durrant
- Aidan Enright
- Cindy Ermus
- Alexander Ian Evans
- Christine Ferguson
- Samuel Fornecker
- Sarah Fox
- Matthew Gerth
- Paul Gooding
- Clare Griffin
- John Griffiths
- Peter Gunn
- Hisham Hellyer
- Briony Hudson
- Jochen Hung
- Adeel Hussain
- Alessandro Iandolo
- Andrew Jones
- Ria Kapoor
- Stephen Kay
- Alexander Kazamias
- Stephen Kite
- Lars Kjær
- Francis Knights
- Paul Kua
- Dawn LaValle Norman
- Adam Lerner
- Amy Lidster
- Domenico Lovascio
- David Lund
- Joyce Macadam
- Kevin Manton
- Emily Mark-FitzGerald
- Brian McCook
- Thomas McInally
- Victoria Mcmahon
- Elizabeth Miller
- Sarah-Louise Miller
- Lynneth Miller Renberg
- Simon Mollan
- Luisa Morettin
- Eve Morrison
- Clare Mulley
- Andrea Nicholson
- Aidan Norrie
- Alexander O’Hara
- John Oliphant
- Sebastian Page
- Danielle Park
- James Payton
- Andrew Phemister
- Diana Popescu
- Robin Prior
- Caroline Radcliffe
- Mark Rankin
- David Raw
- Adam Richardson
- Mike Robinson
- Evan Rothera
- Fearghus Roulston
- Maeve Ryan
- Edward Salo
- Russell Sandberg
- Sathnam Sanghera
- Bihani Sarkar
- Kristalyn Shefveland
- Freya Sierhuis
- Daniel Simpson
- Kate Skinner
- Chloe Wigston Smith
- Martyn Smith
- Claudia Soares
- Charles Spicer
- Alan Strauss-Schom
- Ryan Sweet
- Tom Sykes
- Mari Takayanagi
- Terry Tastard
- Nicholas Taylor-Collins
- Jonathan Topham
- Simon Trafford
- Deborah Valenze
- Marcel van der Linden
- Christina Welch
- Rosamund Lily West
- Kenton White
- Antia Wiersma
- Wendy Wiertz
- Bastiaan Willems
- Theo Williams
- Andrew Winrow
- Koji Yamamoto
New Associate Fellows, elected May 2023
- Olga Akroyd
- Emily Betz
- Eric Blakeley
- Roger Brown
- David Brown
- Jordan Brown
- Robert Butt
- Evan Cater
- Sanjay Chaudhari
- David Cowan
- David Dennis
- Ana Dias
- Collins Edigin
- Jasmine Elmer
- Jennifer Farquharson
- Jayne Friend
- Mario Graña Taborelli
- Lawrence Gregory
- Carla Gutierrez Ramos
- Catherine Healy
- Ralf Bernd Herden
- Siobhan Hyland
- Zoë Karens
- Phil Lyon
- Hélène Maloigne
- Davide Massimo
- Javan Mokebo
- Sophia Nicolov
- Grace Owen
- Carla Passino
- Sarah Phelan
- Georgia Priestley
- Justin Reash
- Fatima Rhorchi
- Sarah Sargent
- Jade Scott
- Michael Sewell
- John Simpson
- Jonathan Skan
- Helen Snelson
- Andrew Southam
- Alice Spiers
- Michael Stansfield
- Izaak Tanna
- Clare Tonks
- Adrian Waddingham
- James Whitworth
- Thomas Wilkinson
- Calista Williams
- Yen Nie Yong
New Members, elected May 2023
- Marcus Aldrich
- Ajay Asthana
- Robert Bardell
- Vicky Basra
- Colin Brewer
- Robert Bullard
- Inskip Cable
- Christopher Chambers
- David Clarkson
- David Crawford-Cummings
- Ian Cummins
- Brianna Dalrymple
- Luis de Mascorro-Gonzalez
- Thomas Deegan
- Enver Alper Demirci
- Piper Dobbie
- John Engle III
- Lee David Evans
- Carol Fawsitt
- Lydia Fell
- Troy Gallagher
- Lee Gatiss
- Derek Greenwell
- Lizzie Grice
- Jack Guise
- Laura Hawthorn
- Hayley Hayhurst
- Niall Hegarty
- Jens Hepper
- Thomas Hooley
- Edward Hopkins
- Yu-Yin Hsu
- Tyler Ivey
- Olivia Jones
- Sarah Kirkman
- Philipp Kneissl
- Amanda Littlefield
- Martin Loy
- Mark Milligan
- George Muirhead
- Derek Nesbitt
- Aleksandr Novikov
- Patricia Okello-Amoah
- Abdallah Omar
- Brian Parker
- Ayush Rai
- Joshua Reinke
- Shabib Rizvi
- Buffy Schilling
- Kevin Smith
- Ka Pok Tam
- Heather Turnbull
- Philippe Van Hootegem
- Charles Weigand
- Alexander Witt
- Matthew Yates
- Sara Yorath
New Postgraduate Members, elected May 2023
- Michael Admiraal
- Dorcas Akinbo
- Kye Allen
- Maaian Aner
- Arjan Arenas
- Jonathan Baddley
- Nicola Barker
- Christopher Bates
- Nicholas Berbiers
- Christopher Berriman
- Ishmael Bhila
- Joseph Biesterfield
- Dmytro Bondarenko
- Gabriele Bonomelli
- Madeleine Bracey
- Julian Calcagno
- Hollie Chambers
- Tori Champion
- Pui To Chan
- Paris Chen
- Catherine Clarke
- Brittany Clarke
- Alex Cooper
- Emily Cotton
- Ailene Crum
- Hana Cutts-Smith
- Siobhan Daly
- Suchintan Das
- Nicole DeRushie
- Emmay Deville
- Mark Dodson
- Corey Estensen
- Gregory Finney
- Madeleine Foote
- Eleanor Gillespie
- Yan Cong Benjamin Goh
- Paul Hamilton
- Zarna Hart
- Cheng He
- Jennifer Hemphill
- Alison Hight
- Gill Holmes
- Emma Hyde
- Elizabeth Isaac
- Jagriti Jagriti
- Lewis Johnson
- Jessica Johnston
- Sajjad Kantrikar
- Kishwer Khan
- Hewa Matharage Pathum Kodikara
- Jonathan Kuo
- Kin-yu Lau
- Amanda Lavelle
- Wen Yi Leong
- Kevin Lockyer
- Michael Lucy
- Dickson Mangsatabam
- Julie Mathias
- Isabelle Moss
- Connor Muqiao
- Liberty Murphy
- Fatima Naveed
- Lesley Niezynski
- Zala Pochat Krizaj
- Mads Proitz
- Madeleine Reynolds
- Francesco Romagnoli
- Amelia Rosch
- Elena Rossi
- James Samuel
- Jamie Selig
- Sana Shah
- Timothy Sim
- Judith Somekh
- Brendan Tam
- Alex Tant-Brown
- Patrick Taylor
- Rose Teanby
- Fabiënne Tetteroo
- Emma Teworte
- Melita Thomas
- Aurelie Toitot
- Moussa Traore
- Reynold Kai Won Tsang
- Francisca Valenzuela Villaseca
- Isobel Weare
- Mackenzie Wells
- Emma Yeo
- Zijian Zhang
HEADER IMAGE: People from Five Countries (detail) Utagawa (Gountei) Sadahide Japanese, 1861, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, public domain.