Sir Colin Lucas's Biography

Sir Colin Lucas's Professional Career

Career

lectr: Univ of Sheffield 1965-69, Univ of Manchester 1970-73; Univ of Oxford: fell Balliol Coll 1973-90, tutor for admissions 1978-81, tutor for graduates 1989-90, memb Governing Bd Assoc Examinations Bd 1982-90; Univ of Chicago: prof 1990-94, chm Dept of History 1992-93, dean Div of the Social Sciences 1993-94; Univ of Oxford: master Balliol Coll 1994-2001, fell All Souls Coll 2001-06, pro-vice-chllr 1995-97, vice-chllr 1997-2004; sec Rhodes Tst and warden Rhodes House Oxford 2004-09; chm Br Library 2006-10; visiting appts: asst prof Indiana Univ 1969-70, prof Univ of Western Ontario 1975, prof Univ of Lyon-II 1977-78, prof Smith Coll 1987, sr fell in Soc for the Humanities Cornell Univ 1989; Leverhulme Faculty fell 1977-78, Radcliffe Research fell 1984-86; memb Hong Kong Univ Grants Ctee 2003-, memb Cncl Univ of Liverpool 2009-; govr: Ludlow Coll 1975-90, Bradfield Coll 1987-90 and 1994-2011 (warden 2007-11), Sherborne Sch 2002-06; chm Voltaire Fndn Fund Ctee 1994-97; Hon DLitt: Univ of Sheffield 2000, Univ of Western Australia 2000, Peking Univ 2002, St Francis Xavier Univ 2003, Oxford Brookes Univ 2004; Hon Dr Univ of Lyon-II France 1989, Hon Dr jur Univ of Glasgow 2001, Hon LLD Univ of Princeton 2002, Hon DCL Univ of Oxford 2003, Hon LLD Univ of Warwick 2006; hon fell: Lincoln Coll Oxford, Balliol Coll Oxford; FRHistS 1973; Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France) 1990, Chevalier Ordre du Mérite 1994, Légion d'Honneur 1998 (Officier 2005)

Sir Colin Lucas's Publications

Books and Publications

author of numerous learned articles on eighteenth-century France, principally the French Revolution The Structure of the Terror (1973), Beyond the Terror (with Gwynne Lewis, 1983), The Political Culture of the French Revolution (ed, 1988), Rewriting the French Revolution (ed, 1991)

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