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The History Faculty welcomes three new statutory professors during Michaelmas Term 2011: Lyndal Roper, as Regius Professor of History; James Belich, as Beit Professor of Commonwealth and Imperial History; and Kevin O’Rourke, as Chichele Professor of Economic History.

Lyndal Roper takes up the Regius Professorship of History on 1 October 2011, following approval of her appointment by Her Majesty the Queen. Hitherto Fellow and Tutor in History at Balliol College and Professor of Early Modern History, Professor Roper succeeds Professor Robert Evans, who retires on 30 September 2011. She will be a fellow of Oriel College. Professor Roper works in the field of gender history and the religious and social history of early modern Germany, and has published a number of ground-breaking works on the history of witchcraft. She is currently working on a biography of Martin Luther.

The History Faculty welcomes three new statutory professors during Michaelmas Term 2011: Lyndal Roper, as Regius Professor of History; James Belich, as Beit Professor of Commonwealth and Imperial History; and Kevin O’Rourke, as Chichele Professor of Economic History.

Kevin O’Rourke assumes the Chichele Professorship of Economic History on 1 October 2011, following the retirement of Professor Avner Offer. Hitherto Professor of Economics at Trinity College Dublin, Professor O’Rourke has published extensively on the history of globalization. He is the Director of the newly-established Economic History programme at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, and Vice-President of the Economic History Association. He is currently the Principal Investigator on an ERC Advanced Investigator Grant for a 5-year project titled “Trade and the Great Depressions in a Long Run Perspective”. Professor O’Rourke will be a fellow of All Souls College.

James Belich joins the Faculty as Beit Professor of Commonwealth and Imperial History, following the retirement of Professor Judith Brown, and will be a fellow of Balliol College. Hitherto professor of history at the Stout Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, his books include a two-volume history of New Zealand, Making Peoples and Paradise Reforged, and The New Zealand Wars and the Victorian Interpretation of Racial Conflict, which was later made into a television documentary series. His latest book is Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Anglo-world, 1783 -1939 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009). He is currently working on the causes of early European expansion.