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Geoffrey Parker
Andreas Dorpalen Designated Professorship
in European History
Department of History
The Ohio State University
Geoffrey Parker was born in Nottingham, England, and holds BA, MA, Ph.D.
and Litt.D. degrees from Cambridge University. He taught for 14 years
at the University of St Andrews, Scotland; at the University of British
Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(Charles E. Nowell Distinguished Professor of History, 1986-93, and served
as department chair from 1989-91); and at Yale University (Robert A. Lovett
Professor of Military and Naval History, 1993-96). Professor Parker joined
The Ohio State University's faculty in 1997, as the Andreas Dorpalen Professor
of History, and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on the Reformation,
European history and military history.
He has published widely on the social, political and military history of early modern Europe and his best-known book is probably The Military Revolution: Military innovation and the rise of the West, 1500-1800, first published by Cambridge University Press in 1988 and winner of two book prizes. A third, expanded edition came out in 2000, with Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese and Chinese translations. His biography, Philip II (1978), is now in its third edition (Chicago, 1995) with translations into Spanish (multiple editions since 1984), Czech, Dutch, Italian and Polish; and The Grand Strategy of Philip II (Yale University Press, 1998; paperback edition, 2000) won the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize from the Society of Military History.
In total, he has written, edited, or co-edited 28 books and has published 80 articles and 160 book reviews. He has also presented more than 200 lectures at universities and conferences in America (North and South), Europe and Japan. In 1984 he became a Fellow of the British Academy, the highest honor open to scholars in the Humanities in Great Britain; and in 1992 the King of Spain made him a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic in recognition of his work on Spanish history.
