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Professor Peter Burke

MA (Oxon and Cantab), Hon PhD (Brussels, Bucharest, Copenhagen, Lund and Zurich), FBA, Member of the Academia Europaea, FRHistS

Life Fellow
Emeritus Professor of Cultural History

Biography

Peter is a Life Fellow, having been elected as an Official Fellow in He was Professor of Cultural History (now Emeritus), and supervised Emmanuel undergraduates and research students in History. He is a Fellow of both the British Academy and the Royal Historical Society. He has also held the positions of Fellow Librarian and Fellow Archivist at the College.

Peter a Londoner, who converted a schoolboy enthusiasm for the Middle Ages into research on the Renaissance and the seventeenth century. National service in a Malay regiment in Singapore awoke his interest in Anthropology. He read History at St John's College, Oxford, moving to St Antony's College to begin research. He was appointed a lecturer at the University of Sussex when it began () and remained for 16 years before moving to Emmanuel.

On moving to Emmanuel, he was glad to return to teaching in very small groups (usually one–to–one, although his experience in Sussex was that two stud

Peter J. Burke

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Institution

University of California, Riverside

Current Position

Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Highest Degree

Ph.D. in Sociology from Yale University,

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Peter J. Burke is a professor in the Department of Sociology. One of the originators of Identity Theory, his research draws on Complexity Theory, Artificial Intelligence, and Computer Simulation to understand (1) how individuals, acting as agents with particular identities, come together in interaction to create larger aggregates, groups, organizations and societies, and (2) how these social structures constrain and limit the kinds of actions that individuals can take.

Primary Interests:

  • Communication, Language
  • Gender Psychology
  • Group Processes
  • Research Methods, Assessment
  • Self and Identity
  • Sociology, Social Networks

Research Group or Laboratory:

Books:

  • Burke, P. J. (). Contemporary social psychological theories. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press.
  • Burke, P. J., Owens, T. J., Serpe, R., & Thoits, P. A. (Eds.). (). Advances in identity theory and research. New York: Kluwer/Plenum.
  • Burke, P. J., & Stets, J. E. (). Identity theory. New

    I was educated at St Ignatius’s College, Stamford Hill, London, and St John’s College Oxford. I was one of the first junior lecturers to be appointed at the University of Sussex, attracted by the interdisciplinary programme, and remained there for 17 years (). I moved to Cambridge in , where I became Professor of Cultural History. I retired from the Chair in but remain a Life Fellow of Emmanuel College. I am married to the Brazilian historian Maria Lúcia García Pallares-Burke.

    I have been a visiting teacher or researcher in Berlin, Brussels, Canberra; Groningen, Heidelberg, Los Angeles, Nijmegen, Paris (the EHESS), Princeton (IAS and Department of History) and São Paulo. I am a Fellow of the British Academy and Member of the Academia Europea; Ph. D (honoris causa), Universities of Lund, Copenhagen, Bucharest, Zurich, Brussels and Oviedo, Honorary Professor of the National University of Colombia, Honorary Fellow of St John’s College Oxford.

    I have published hundreds of articles and chapters and 30 books, from Culture and Society in Renaissance Italy () to A Social History of Knowledge (2 vols., ) and Exiles and Expatriates in the History of Knowledge (). My work has been t

    Burke, Professor Ulick Peter (–)

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    A cultural historian and historian of Europe, Burke has been influential in his investigation of innovative topics and his use of varying methodologies. He played a large part in raising the profile and status of cultural history.

     

    Forenames:
    Ulick Peter
    Surname:
    Burke
    Title:
    Professor
    Dates:
    –
    Institutions:
    School of European Studies, University of Sussex
    University of Cambridge (Emmanuel College)
    Significant posts:
    Professor of Cultural History, University of Cambridge (Emmanuel College)
    Influences:
    Briggs, Asa
    Thomas, Keith
    Trevor-Roper, Hugh Redwald
    Themes:
    Cultural History
    European History
    Prosopography
    Biographies:
    Historians / Daniel Snowman

    Bibliography

    Significant publications

    • Peter Burke, Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe (London, )
    • Peter Burke, New Perspectives on Historical Writing (Cambridge, )
    • Peter Burke, History and Social Theory (Cambridge, )
    • Peter Burke, What is Cultural History? (Cambridge, )

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