Elected: 2006
Discipline: Language, Literature and History
Professor Daniel Szechi
Professor of Early Modern History, University of Manchester
Daniel Szechi took his first degree at the University of Sheffield and his DPhil at the University of Oxford. Over his career he taught at St John’s College, Oxford, Auburn University, Alabama, and the University of Manchester. He retired in 2017 and is Emeritus Professor in Early Modern History at the University of Manchester, Honorary Professor of History at Aberdeen and Emeritus Professor of History at Auburn University Alabama. He continues to research and write and now also runs a historical consultancy business. He has written extensively on the history of Jacobitism and his latest book, The Jacobites. Britain and Europe 1688-1788 (2nd edn, Manchester University Press) was published in May 2019.