Prof. Sir David Cannadine, Photo © Tom Miller
Prof. Sir David Cannadine
Dodge Professor of History, Princeton University
Sir David Cannadine is a British author and historian specializing in the period 1800 to the present. He has held positions at Cambridge, Columbia and London Universities and is currently the Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University, a Visiting Professor of History at Oxford University, the editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and President of the British Academy, the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences. He has been Chairman of the Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery in London and Deputy Chairman of Historic Royal Palaces, and also sits on the board of The Royal Oak Foundation. He is the author of eighteen books, and the editor or co-editor of many more.
