David Hopkin (historian)

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David Hopkin
Born
David Matthew Hopkin

1966 (age 5859)
Occupation(s)Historian and academic
TitleProfessor of European Social History
Children3
Academic background
Alma mater Churchill College, Cambridge
Doctoral advisor Peter Burke
Robert Scribner
Institutions Churchill College, Cambridge
University of Glasgow
Hertford College, Oxford

David Matthew Hopkin FRHistS (born 1966) is an English historian, who specialises in European social history and folklore in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He is Professor of European Social History at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in History at Hertford College. [1]

Contents

Hopkin has called for historians to engage more with the subjects of folklore, writing in 2004 that historians should pay “…due attention not just to folklore collections, but to folklorists’ ideas and methods”. [2]

Education

Hopkin studied history at Churchill College, University of Cambridge, from 1985 to 1988.  

From 1994 to 1997 he undertook a PhD, [3] supervised by Peter Burke and Robert Scribner, before a spell as a Junior Research Fellow at Churchill College. [4]

Career

From 1999 to 2005, Hopkin was based at the Department of Economic and Social History, University of Glasgow, as first a lecturer then senior lecturer.

Hopkin joined Hertford College, University of Oxford, as Fellow and Tutor in History in 2005. He was made Professor of European Social History in 2017. [4]

Research

Hopkin has authored and edited five books and numerous research articles. He has been a key collaborator in a number of large-scale historical research projects, including the BEROSE International Encyclopaedia of the Histories of Anthropology. [5]

Hopkins's first monograph, Soldier and Peasant in French Popular Culture was praised as the “product of meticulous research and high intelligence, expressed in superb prose” [6] and was jointly awarded the Gladstone Book Prize in 2002. [7]

His second monograph, Voices of the People in Nineteenth-Century France, was awarded the Folklore Society's Katharine Briggs Prize in 2012. [8]

In 2016, Hopkin was awarded a Leverhulme Trust Fellowship for the project ‘Lacemakers – Poverty, Religion and Gender in a Transnational Work Culture’, which sought to "provide the first full length study of the shared work culture of lacemakers across nineteenth-century Europe; a history of women's experience of poverty constructed from folk songs and stories". [9]

Recognition

In 2023, Hopkin was elected President of the Folklore Society. [10] Hopkin is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. [11]

Personal life

Hopkin is married and has three children. [12]

Selected publications

References

  1. "Professor David Hopkin". www.history.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
  2. Hopkin, David (2004). "Editorial note" . Folklore. 115 (2): 131–132. doi:10.1080/0015587042000231228. ISSN   0015-587X.
  3. Hopkin, David Matthew (1997). Changing popular attitudes to the military in Lorraine and surrounding regions, 1700-1870 (Ph.D. Dissertation). University of Cambridge. Faculty of History.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. 1 2 "Professor David Hopkin". Hertford College | University of Oxford. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
  5. "Résultats de la recherche - Bérose". www.berose.fr. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
  6. McPhee, Peter (2003). "Reviews of Books" . The American Historical Review. 108 (4): 1227–1228. doi:10.1086/529925. ISSN   0002-8762.
  7. "RHS Gladstone Past Winners | RHS". royalhistsoc.org. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
  8. "The Katharine Briggs Award". The Folklore Society. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
  9. Leverhulme Trust (2016). "2015 Annual Review" (PDF). Retrieved 23 December 2023.
  10. "Governance: Council and Management Board". The Folklore Society. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
  11. Royal Historical Society (October 2023). "List of Current Fellows" (PDF). Retrieved 23 December 2023.
  12. Hopkin, David (2012). Voices of the People in Nineteenth-Century France. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. xi. ISBN   9780521519366.