Patricia Clavin | |
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Born | Patricia Meria Clavin 1964 (age 59–60) |
Nationality | British, Irish |
Title | Professor of Modern History |
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Academic background | |
Alma mater | King's College London |
Academic work | |
Discipline | History |
Sub-discipline | International relations 20th century history |
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Patricia Meria Clavin, FRHistS , FBA (born 1964) is a British-Irish historian and academic,who specialises in international relations,economic crises,and twentieth-century history. She is Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford and a Professorial Fellow of Worcester College. [1]
Clavin was born in England to Irish parents and holds dual Irish and British nationalities. Clavin was raised in Germany where Irish father was serving in the British army. She studied Modern History at King's College London,graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree. [2]
Before moving to Oxford,Clavin was Reader in Modern History at Keele University. [2] In October 2003,she was elected a Fellow of Jesus College,Oxford and appointed a university lecturer in modern history at the University of Oxford. [3] In 2011,she was granted a Title of Distinction as Professor of International History. [4]
In October 2021 Clavin was appointed to the Professorship of Modern History at Worcester College,succeeding Robert Gildea and becoming the first woman to ever hold the chair. [5]
She is a member of the Editorial Board for Past &Present . [6]
In 2015,Clavin was awarded the British Academy Medal for her book,Securing The World Economy:The Reinvention of the League of Nations 1920-1946;the medals are awarded each year to up to three people "for landmark academic achievement in any of the humanities and social science disciplines supported by the Academy". [7] In July 2016,she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA),the UK's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. [8] [9] She is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS), [10] and a Foreign Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. [11]
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