British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Professor Richard Carwardine
Rhodes Professor of American History, University of Oxford

Year elected: 2006

He is the leading British historian of the United States currently in post, whose work is well appreciated in the U.S.. His detailed and comprehensive analysis of the relationships between religion and American national identity, work of unusual power and originality, has been widely recognized, and he is pursuing these themes into the post-Civil War period.