!!Alvin Jackson - Curriculum Vitae
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__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).\\
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__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).\\
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__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).\\
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__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).\\
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__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. \\
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__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.