Dauvit Broun

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Professor Dauvit Broun, FRSE, FBA (English: David Brown) (born 1961) is a Scottish historian and academic. He is the chair of Scottish history at the University of Glasgow. A specialist in medieval Scottish and Celtic studies, he concentrates primarily on early medieval Scotland, and has written abundantly on the topic of early Scottish king-lists, as well as on literacy, charter-writing, national identity, and on the text known as de Situ Albanie .

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He is editor of the New Edinburgh History of Scotland series, the pre-1603 editor of the Scottish Historical Review , convener of the Scottish History Society, and the Principal Investigator of the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project 'The Paradox of Medieval Scotland, 1093–1286'.

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Dauvit was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2013. [1] In July 2017, Broun was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. [2] In 2013 he delivered the British Academy's Sir John Rhys Memorial Lecture. [3]

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References

  1. "Professor Dauvit Broun FRSE". The Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
  2. "Elections to the British Academy celebrate the diversity of UK research". British Academy. 2 July 2017. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
  3. "Sir John Rhys Memorial Lectures". British Academy. text video
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Preceded by Professor of Scottish History and Literature, Glasgow
2009–Present
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