Fellowship

The RSE Fellowship comprises around 1,800 leading experts in the sciences, arts, business, professions and the third and public sectors, with links to Scotland. This range of expertise within the Fellowship places us in a unique position to provide an informed, interdisciplinary response to issues facing Scotland and internationally.

Our Fellows from academia, business and public service are among the most distinguished in their fields. We engage and connect nationally and internationally to share knowledge and tackle the most pressing challenges of the modern world.

Elected: 2016
Discipline: Language, Literature and History
Professor Geoffrey Parker
Andreas Dorpalen Professor of European History, Ohio State University
Professor Geoffrey Parker is a historian with expertise in European history, Military History and Global Environmental History. Before moving to Ohio State in 1997, Geoffrey taught at the Universities of Cambridge and St. Andrews, UK; University of British Columbia, Canada; and Universities of Illinois and Yale, United States. He has written or co-written 39 books including ‘Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800, 1988 and ‘Imprudent King. A new biography of Philip II’, 2014. In 1984 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
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