Linda Colley

Dame Linda Colley
Born
Linda Jane Colley

(1949-09-13) 13 September 1949 (age 75)
Chester, Cheshire, England
Spouse
(m. 1982)
Children1
AwardsWolfson Prize (1992)
Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (2017)
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-discipline
Institutions

Dame Linda Jane Colley (born 13 September 1949 in Chester, England) is an expert on British, imperial and global history from 1700. She is currently Shelby M. C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University and a long-term fellow in history at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala. She previously held chairs at Yale University and at the London School of Economics. Her work frequently approaches the past from inter-disciplinary perspectives.[1]

  1. ^ "Linda Colley | Department of History". history.princeton.edu. Retrieved 30 November 2022.