N. Geoffrey Parker

Geoffrey Parker has taught in the UK (Cambridge and St Andrews), Canada (UBC) and the US (Illinois, Yale, and Ohio State), and directed more than 30 doctoral dissertations to completion. He has published books and articles on military history (The Military Revolution, 1988); early modern Europe (Imprudent King: a new life of Philip II, 2014); and global environmental history (The Global Crisis, 2013; updated edition, 2017). His work has been translated into many languages. In 2012 he won the Heineken Prize for History and in 2014 a British Academy Medal for a landmark scholarly achievement (Global Crisis.)