Alvin Jackson - Curriculum Vitae#

1. Present Position: Sir Richard Lodge Professor of History, University of Edinburgh (UoE) (from 2005); Dean of Research and Deputy Head of the College of the Humanities and Social Sciences, UoE (2014). Head of the School of History, Classics & Archaeology, UoE (2010 -13).

2. Employment History: Lecturer, History, University College Dublin (1988-91); Lecturer (1991-5) and Reader (1995-9) in History, Queen’s University Belfast (QUB); Professor of Modern Irish History, QUB (1999-2004).

3. Major Research Awards: British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow (1986-8); Burns Professor, Boston College, USA (1996-7); British Academy Research Reader (2000-2002); British Academy Senior Research Fellow (2008-9); Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2014-17). Honorary Member, Royal Irish Academy (2014).

4. Education: Undergraduate: Corpus Christi College, Oxford (1979-82): MA (Hons), Modern History (1982). Postgraduate: Nuffield College, Oxford (1983-5): D.Phil. (1986). Major State Studentship (1982-5); A.M.P. Read Scholar (Oxford University, 1984-5), Research Studentship, Nuffield College (1983-5), Junior Fellowship, QUB (1985-6).

5. Books and Monographs:

• The Ulster Party (Oxford University Press: 1989), pp.xii + 359. Winner of the ACIS Book Prize (1990).
  
• Sir Edward Carson (Historical Association of Ireland: 1993), pp.74.
  
• Colonel Edward Saunderson: Land and Loyalty in Victorian Ireland (OUP: 1995), pp.x + 276.
  
• Ireland 1798-1998: Politics and War (Blackwell, 1999), pp.xii + 520. Short-listed for the Ewart-Biggs Literary Prize (2000). Second (enlarged) edition in 2010, pp.xii + 544.
  
• Home Rule: An Irish History, 1800-2000 (Weidenfeld: 2003), pp.x + 405. Co-published in the USA by OUP (2004).
  
• The Two Unions: Ireland, Scotland and the Survival of the United Kingdom, 1707-2007 (OUP: 2012), pp.xvi + 468. Short-listed for the Ewart-Biggs Prize (2013) and the Saltire Prize (Scottish History) (2012).
  
• (edited) The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History (OUP: 2014), pp.xiv + 786.
  

6. Refereed Journal Articles: over 40 articles in peer-reviewed journals or collections - Past & Present, the Historical Journal, Irish Historical Studies, Journal of Modern History, Victorian Studies, European History Quarterly, Éire-Ireland, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and Dictionary of Irish Biography.