Academic CV example: Professor of History (humanities)

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This academic CV example is designed for a mid-career or senior faculty member in history. It demonstrates how a humanities professor structures a full curriculum vitae, with books and book chapters as the centrepiece — reflecting the discipline's emphasis on long-form scholarship — alongside grants, fellowships, invited lectures, doctoral supervision, and service.

In history and the broader humanities, monographs published by academic presses carry the most weight for tenure and promotion. This example follows Chicago Notes-Bibliography style for citations and uses the 'Classic' template, which suits the text-heavy format typical of a humanities CV. The author's own surname is highlighted in each citation.

Illustrative example. Dr. Marguerite Voss is a fictional researcher and the publications below are fabricated for demonstration — any resemblance to a real person or work is coincidental.

Dr. Marguerite Voss, PhD

Professor of Modern European History

Department of History, Westbridge University · Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Education

  • PhD in Modern European History, University of Dunmore, 2002. Dissertation: 'Contested Ground: Land Reform and Rural Protest in the Rhineland, 1848–1880.' Supervisor: Prof. H. Lindhout.
  • MA in History, University of Dunmore, 1997.
  • BA (Hons) in History and French, Castleport University, 1996. First-class honours.

Academic Appointments

  • Professor of Modern European History, Westbridge University, 2018–present.
  • Reader in Modern European History, Westbridge University, 2012–2018.
  • Senior Lecturer in History, Westbridge University, 2008–2012.
  • Lecturer in European History, Aldgate College, University of London, 2003–2008.
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, European History Institute, University of Dunmore, 2002–2003.

Books

  • Voss, Marguerite. Harvests of Discontent: Agrarian Politics and Social Order in Nineteenth-Century Prussia. Dunmore University Press, 2023.
  • Voss, Marguerite. The Fractured Republic: Nationalism, Minority Rights, and the Weimar Settlement, 1919–1933. Cornerstone Academic Press, 2015.
  • Voss, Marguerite. Contested Ground: Land Reform and Rural Protest in the Rhineland, 1848–1880. Aldgate Historical Studies, 2005. [Revised edition of doctoral dissertation.]

Edited Volumes

  • Voss, Marguerite, and Tobias Renner, eds. Borderlands and Belonging: Identity Politics in Central Europe, 1880–1945. Westbridge University Press, 2020.
  • Voss, Marguerite, ed. Empire, Nation, Region: New Perspectives on German Unification. Aldgate Historical Studies, 2010.

Peer-Reviewed Articles and Chapters

  • Voss, Marguerite. 'Memory, Myth, and the Peasant: Commemorative Culture in Rural Prussia, 1870–1914.' German History 41, no. 2 (2023): 187–214.
  • Voss, Marguerite. 'Property, Protest, and the Prussian State: Eviction Disputes in the Rhineland, 1860–1880.' Central European History 55, no. 1 (2022): 44–72.
  • Voss, Marguerite. 'Between Weimar and Versailles: Minority Treaties and the Limits of International Law.' Journal of Modern European History 19, no. 3 (2021): 310–338.
  • Voss, Marguerite. 'Agrarian Populism and the Rise of the Rural League, 1919–1924.' In Borderlands and Belonging: Identity Politics in Central Europe, 1880–1945, edited by Marguerite Voss and Tobias Renner, 78–107. Westbridge University Press, 2020.
  • Voss, Marguerite, and Katarina Sievert. 'Women, Property, and the Courts in Wilhelmine Germany.' Women's History Review 28, no. 4 (2019): 601–624.
  • Voss, Marguerite. 'The Limits of Liberalism: Free Trade and Agrarian Discontent in the 1870s.' European History Quarterly 47, no. 2 (2017): 255–283.
  • Voss, Marguerite. 'Nation-Building and the German School System, 1870–1900.' History of Education 44, no. 1 (2015): 22–47.
  • Voss, Marguerite. 'Peasant Courts and Customary Law in Rhineland Prussia.' Law and History Review 30, no. 3 (2012): 751–785.
  • Voss, Marguerite. 'The Politics of Partition: Polish Territories and German National Identity, 1886–1914.' Slavonic and East European Review 87, no. 4 (2009): 621–653.
  • Voss, Marguerite. 'Rural Migration and Urban Memory in Wilhelmine Berlin.' Urban History 34, no. 2 (2007): 203–228.
  • Voss, Marguerite. 'Land, Law, and Loyalty: The Rhineland Peasantry and the Prussian State.' Historical Journal 49, no. 1 (2006): 113–140.
  • … and 7 additional peer-reviewed articles and book chapters.

Grants and Fellowships

  • European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant, 'Agrarian Modernity in the German-Speaking World, 1848–1918' (€1.4 million), 2019–2024.
  • British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship, 'Property Regimes and Social Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Prussia,' 2016–2017.
  • Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant (co-investigator with Dr. K. Sievert), 'Gender, Law, and Land in Wilhelmine Germany' (£185,000), 2014–2016.
  • AHRC Research Fellowship, 'The Weimar Settlement and European Minority Rights' (£92,000), 2010–2012.
  • Fritz Thyssen Foundation Travel Grant, 2007.
  • Gerda Henkel Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 2001–2002.

Invited Lectures

  • 'Harvests of Discontent: New Directions in Agrarian History,' Keynote Address, Annual Conference of the German History Society, Cambridge, 2023.
  • 'Property, Protest, and the Prussian State,' German Historical Institute, London, 2022.
  • 'Weimar's Long Shadow: Minority Rights and the Interwar Order,' University of Vienna, 2021.
  • 'Nationalism and the Courts in Wilhelmine Germany,' Max Planck Institute for Legal History, Frankfurt, 2019.
  • 'Borders, Belonging, and the Nation-State,' Seminar in Modern European History, Harvard University, 2017.
  • 'Land, Law, and Loyalty,' École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, 2014.
  • 'Gender and Property in Imperial Germany,' Institute of Historical Research, London, 2011.

Teaching

  • Undergraduate: European History, 1789–1918; Germany and the Two World Wars; Nationalism and the Nation-State; Peasants, Markets, and Modernity.
  • Postgraduate: Research Methods in History; Agrarian History of Modern Europe; Nationalism and Minority Rights, 1848–1939.
  • Supervisor, MA in Modern European History, Westbridge University, 2008–present (22 dissertations completed).
  • Module leader, Department of History, Westbridge University, 2008–present.

Doctoral Supervision

  • Current doctoral students: 4 (topics: rural credit markets in Prussia; memory and the Franco-Prussian War; Habsburg minorities policy; German settlement in Eastern Europe).
  • Completed doctorates as primary supervisor: 11 (2008–present).
  • Completed doctorates as secondary supervisor: 6 (2008–present).
  • External examiner for doctoral theses, Universities of Cambridge, Exeter, and St Andrews.

Awards and Honours

  • Royal Historical Society Fellow (FRHistS), elected 2013.
  • German History Society Book Prize, for The Fractured Republic, 2016.
  • Whitmore Prize for Best Article in European History, Historical Journal, 2006.
  • Dunmore University Prize for Best Doctoral Thesis, Faculty of Arts, 2002.

Service

  • Head of Department, Department of History, Westbridge University, 2020–2023.
  • Editor, European History Review, 2017–present.
  • Member, Publications Committee, Royal Historical Society, 2019–present.
  • Co-chair, Programme Committee, German History Society Annual Conference, 2021.
  • Peer reviewer for German History, Historical Journal, Central European History, Journal of Modern History, Past & Present.
  • Member, AHRC Peer Review College, 2013–present.
  • Admissions Tutor, Department of History, Westbridge University, 2009–2012.

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