Evans Robert J. W.

Prof., M.A., Ph.D.
Born October 7, 1943

• Historian
• Honorary Member of Learned Society since 2004

Educational and professional preparation:

• 1952-62, Dean Close School, Cheltenham (U.K.);
• 1962-68, Jesus College, Cambridge, B.A. Camb.
• 1965: German, Russian, History. 1968, Ph.D. Camb.; 1969, M.A.Camb.

Employment and academic positions:

• 1968/1973-1992, Junior/Senior Research Fellow, Brasenose College, Oxford;
• 1992-97, Professorial Fellow;
• 1969/1974/1990-1992, Faculty/University Lecturer/Reader in Modern History of East-Central Europe, Oxford;
• 1992-97, Professor of European History;
• 1997-present, Regius Professor of Modern History and Fellow of Oriel College

Membership in selected domestic scienctific bodies:

• 1986-95, Joint-Editor, English Historical Review
• 2001, Founding Member of EHR board
• 1999-present, General Editor, Oxford History of Early Modern Europe. Chair, Oxford Historical Monographs Committee
• 2001-04, British Academy, Chair, Section H9
• 2000-present, Chair, Forum of British, Czech and Slovak Historians
• 2000-present, Chair, Council
• 2001-present, Oxfordshire Record Society

Membership and positions in international organizations and societies:

• 1973, Fellow, Royal Historical Society.
• 1984, Fellow, British Academy
• 1995, Honorary Fellow, Hungarian Academy of Sciences;
• 1997, Corresponding Fellow, Austrian Academy of Sciences
• 1999, Fellow, Academia Europaea

Notable awards:

• 1980, Wolfson Literary Award for History
• 1986, Anton Gindely-Preis (Austria)
• 1991, František Palacký Medal (Czechoslovakia)

Selected publications:

• 2003, Editor, Great Britain and Central Europe, 1867-1914, Bratislava
• 2002, Great Britain and East-Central Europe, 1908-48. A Study in Perceptions, London 2001, Wales in European Context. Some Historical Reflections, Aberystwyth
• 2000, Editor, The Revolutions in Europe, 1848-9: From Reform to Reaction, Oxford
• 1997, Rudolf II and his World. A Study in Intellectual History, 1576-1612 (paperback reprint.) London; 1998, also as Rudolf II. a jeho svět (Rudolf II and his world), Prague
• 1998, The Language of History and the History of Language, Oxford
• 1991, Editor, Crown, Church and Estates. Central European Politics in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, London
• 1988, Editor, The Coming of the First World War, Oxford
• 1991, The Making of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1550-1700. An Interpretation (paperback reprint.) Oxford 1991) 2003, Also as Vznik habsburské monarchie, 1550-1700, Prague
• 1975, The Wechel Presses. Humanism and Calvinism in Central Europe, 1572-1627, Oxford