Prof Richard Carwardine, FBA

Career: historian; Univ of Sheffield: lectr, sr lectr then reader in American history 1971-94, prof of history 1994-2002, dean Faculty of Arts 1999-2001; Univ of Oxford: Rhodes prof of American history 2002-09, fell St Catherine's Coll 2002-09 (hon fell 2009-), Ramsey Murray lectr Selwyn Coll 2010, pres Corpus Christi Coll 2010-, hon fell Queen's Coll 2010-; visiting asst prof Syracuse Univ NY 1974-75, visiting fell Univ of N Carolina at Chapel Hill 1989, Birkbeck lectr Trinity Coll Cambridge 2004, Stenton lectr Univ of Reading 2004, Stewart fell Princeton Univ 2011; Arthur Miller American Studies Prize 1997, Lincoln Prize 2004, Bicentennial Order of Lincoln The Lincoln Acad of Illinois 2009; Leverhulme Tst Res Fellowship 2001-04; memb Advsy Cncl Sulgrave Manor 2003-, memb Pilgrims Soc 2009-; Freeman Haberdashers Co 2011-; FRHistS 1983, FBA 2006, founding FLSW 2010

Books and Publications: Transatlantic Revivalism: Popular Evangelicalism in Britain and America 1790-1865 (1978), Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America (1993), Lincoln (2003, revised edn 2006), The Global Lincoln (jtly, 2011); author of numerous articles in learned jls