 | Keith E. Wrightson |
Keith E. Wrightson, the newly named Randolph W. Townsend Jr. Professor of History, is a scholar of early modern British history. His books, which have been credited for their novel approach to English social and cultural history, include "Poverty and Piety in an English Village: Terling, 1525-1700" (co-authored with David Levine), "The Making of an Industrial Society. Whickham 1560-1765" (also with Levine), "English Society, 1580-1680" and "Earthly Necessities. Economic Lives in Early Modern Britain." He is a contributing editor of "The Illustrated Dictionary of British History" and co-editor of "The World We Have Gained. Histories of Population and Social Structure. Essays Presented to Peter Laslett on His 70th Birthday." Wrightson has also contributed chapters to numerous books.
Wrightson earned his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. from Cambridge University and began his teaching career at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, where he was a lecturer in modern history 1975-1984. He returned to Cambridge in 1984, serving as the University Lecturer in History and later as director of studies in history and a reader in English social history. He became a full professor of social history there in 1998 and joined the Yale faculty a year later.
The historian has held visiting professorships at the University of Alberta and the University of Toronto, among others, and has been an invited lecturer at universities and in conferences throughout Europe, Canada, Australia, China, Russia and the United States. He was the James Ford Special Lecturer at the University of Oxford in 1993 and will present the British Academy's Raleigh Lecture in the fall of 2005.
At Yale, Wrightson has served as director of undergraduate studies in history and has chaired the Renaissance Studies Program. He has also served on a number of University advisory boards.
In 2001, Wrightson was awarded the John Ben Snow Prize, presented by the North American Conference on British Studies. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the British Academy. He serves on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals.
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Keith Wrightson is the
Townsend Jr. Professor of History
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