Honorary Professor: Patrick Joyce

Patrick Joyce has been made an Honorary Professor of History in the College of Humanities & Social Science.

Professor Joyce is an Honorary Professor in the School of History, Classics & Archaeology, where he was previously a professorial fellow.

He is also Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Manchester.

Research

Professor Joyce is generally regarded as one of the leading British social historians of his generation.

He has written extensively on 19th and 20th century Britain and, recently, on Ireland. His research topics have included the history of industrial society, of class, of liberal governmentality and of the state.

Professor Joyce is widely known for introducing the work of Foucault into British historical writing, and as a pioneer of the cultural turn and, more recently, of new materialism in contemporary historical discourse.

He is currently interested in the relationship between history, past and present political life and the legacy of Foucault. He is also writing a quasi-personal history of Britain since 1945.

Biography

Professor Joyce was born in west London in 1945 to immigrant Irish parents. He was educated at Keele University and Balliol College, the University of Oxford.

For most of his teaching life, he taught at the University of Manchester, with frequent visiting positions at leading institutions in Britain, Europe and the USA, including the London School of Economics and the University of California, Berkeley.