Eric Zuelow elected as Royal Historical Society Fellow

Eric G.E. Zuelow, Ph.D., University of New England assistant professor of European history, was elected a fellow of the Royal Historical Society (RHS), Britain’s foremost historical organization. 

According to the RHS, fellowship is awarded to historians who make “an original contribution to historical scholarship in the form of significant published work.” 

Zuelow is author of the award-winning monograph Making Ireland Irish: Tourism and National Identity since the Irish Civil War (Syracuse, 2009), is co-editor of Nationalism in a Global Era: The Persistence of Nations (Routledge, 2007), and is editor of Touring Beyond the Nation: A Transnational Approach to European Tourism History (Ashgate, 2011).  He is currently writing a history of global tourism that will be published by Palgrave-Macmillan and is also co-editing (with Kevin James of the University of Guelph) a collection of essays exploring the history of tourism in Scotland and Ulster.  Zuelow serves as reviews editor for the Journal of Tourism History.

The Royal Historical Society was founded in 1868 and Queen Victoria issued the new body a royal charter later that same year.  It is among the oldest and most prestigious historical societies in the world, consisting of nearly 3,000 elected fellows as well as an unelected membership drawn from around the globe. The RHS is devoted to promoting and defending the scholarly study of the past.

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