Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones BA, PhD
Emeritus Professor of History
Room 1M.30, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, Teviot Place
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Born in Carmarthen, at the age of six I moved to Harlech inNorth Walesattending the local primary school and then the comprehensive, Ysgol Ardudwy.
My BA was from the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth and my PhD fromCambridgeUniversity. After tutoring at Kirkland House, Harvard, at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge and for the Transport and General Workers Union, I arrived in Edinburgh in 1967 as an assistant lecturer and remained here except for periods of leave to take up the following appointments: Postdoctoral Fellow, Charles Warren Center for the Study of American History, Harvard University; Stipendiary, JFK Institut für Nordamerikastudien, Berlin and Canadian Commonwealth Fellow and Visiting Professor, University of Toronto. I was Professor of American History from 1997 to 2007 and am now Professor Emeritus.
In the past I served as Chair of the Department of History and as Head of the History subject area. I edited a series of books for Edinburgh University Press, and was founder and first chair of the Scottish Association for the Study of America. Currently, I am that organization’s Honorary President. Various of my books have been selected (in the USA) for the History Book Club, the Book of the Month Club, the Doubleday Book Club and the Editor’s Pick list of the Foreign Policy Association. They have been translated into German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish and Spanish.