Professor Stuart Carroll elected as a Fellow of the British Academy

Posted on 18 July 2024

Professor Stuart Carroll is elected as a Fellow of the British Academy.

The Department of History is pleased to announce that Professor Stuart Carroll has been elected as a Fellow of the British Academy.

Professor Carroll’s election is a great accolade from the UK's national academy for the promotion of original research in humanities and social sciences, and a tribute to his reputation in the field of historical study.

Professor Carroll joined the University of York in 1992, prior to receiving his doctorate from the University of London in 1993. From 2011 until 2015, he was Head of the Department of History. He specialises in early modern European history, with a particular focus on civil society, violence, and the emotions.

Alongside many chapters and articles, he is the author of four monographs: Noble Power during the French Wars of Religion (Cambridge, 1998); Blood and Violence in Early Modern France (Oxford, 2006); Martyrs and Murderers: the Guise Family and the Making of Europe (2010); and, most recently, a major reappraisal of 'enmity' as a complex matrix of emotions, actions, and relationships, Enmity and Violence in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, 2023). He is also the editor of two major collaborative works that have shaped historical thinking about the meanings and extent of violence in global perspective: Cultures of Violence (Palgrave, 2007) and The Cambridge World History of Violence. Volume III: 1500-1800 (Cambridge, 2020).

Professor Carroll's work has received international awards. In 2011, he won the J. Russell Major prize of the American Historical Association. He has received the Nancy Roelker prize, awarded by the Sixteenth-Century Studies Society, an unprecedented four times.

Professor Laura Stewart, Head of the Department of History, said: "We are all thrilled for Stuart. Fellows of the British Academy are exceptional researchers and only a very small number of individuals in the field will ever attain this distinction.

“It stands for all the outstanding work being produced in this Department, even in such challenging times for the humanities, and shows that the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of York remains a powerhouse of original scholarship."

See the full list of 2024 British Academy fellows