Sir Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. mult.

Richard John Evans

Richard John Evans

Honorary Member of the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences since 2022

  • University of Cambridge

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Research Areas:

  • History, Archaeology
  • European history
  • Science of history
  • Classical studies
  • Modern history

Profile:

CV/Website

Publications:

Website

Selected Memberships:

  • British Academy
  • Learned Society of Wales
  • Royal Society of Literature

Selected Prizes:

  • British Academy Leverhulme Prize and Medal
  • Medaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft des Senats der Freien-und Hansestadt Hamburg
  • Wolfson History Prize

Selected Publications:

  • Evans, R. J. (2016). The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914.
  • Evans, Richard J. (2005). The Third Reich in power, 1933-1939. New York : Penguin Press.
  • Evans, R. J., & Mazal Holocaust Collection. (1999). In defense of history. New York: W.W. Norton.
  • Evans, R. J. (1996). Rituals of retribution: Capital punishment in Germany, 1600-1987. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Evans, R. J. (1987). Death in Hamburg: Society and politics in the cholera years, 1830-1910. Oxford [Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press].