Richard Rodger (academic)

Richard G. Rodger, FRHistS, FAcSS, is a historian specialising in the business, urban and economic history of modern Britain. Formerly Professor of Urban History and Director of the Centre for Urban History at the University of Leicester, since 2007 he has been Professor of Economic and Social History at Edinburgh University.

Career

Rodger completed his master of arts (MA) and doctor of philosophy (PhD) degrees in economics and economic history at Edinburgh University; his PhD was awarded in 1976 for a thesis entitled Scottish Urban Housebuilding, 1870–1914. He held post-doctoral appointments at Kansas and Liverpool Universities, before teaching at the University of Leicester, where he was eventually appointed Professor of Urban History and Director of the Centre for Urban History and the East Midlands Oral History Archive. In 2007, he returned to Edinburgh, this time to occupy a professorship in social and urban history; he remained at Leicester as an Honorary Visiting Professor.[1][2]

In addition to his university appointments, Rodger has been the editor of the journal Urban History (form 1987 to 2007) and the series editor for Ashgate's Historical Urban Studies book series (1990 to 2010).[1] He is also a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Academy of Social Sciences.[3][4]

Publications

Rodger's research relates to the urban, business and economic history of modern Britain and his publications include:[5]

  • (with Paul Laxton) Insanitary City: H. D. Littlejohn and the Report on the Sanitary Condition of Edinburgh (1865) (Carnegie Publications, 2013).
  • Edinburgh's Colonies: Housing the Workers (Argyll Press, 2012)
  • (edited with G. Massard-Guilbaud) Environmental and Social Justice in the City: Historical Perspectives (White Horse Press, 2011)
  • (edited with Joanna Herbert) Testimonies of the City: Identity, Community and Change in a Contemporary Urban World (Ashgate, 2007)
  • (edited with Denis Menjot) Teaching Urban History in Europe (Leicester, 2006)
  • (with R. Colls) Cities of Ideas: Civil Society and Urban Governance in Britain 1800–2000 (Ashgate, 2004)
  • The Transformation of Edinburgh: Land, Property and Trust in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
  • Housing the People: the 'Colonies' of Edinburgh 1860–1950 (City of Edinburgh and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1999).
  • Housing in Urban Britain 1780–1914 (Cambridge University Press, 1995)
  • Research in Urban History (Scolar Press, 1994)
  • (edited with D. Reeder, D. N. Nash, and P. Jones) Leicester in the Twentieth Century (Alan Sutton, 1993)
  • (edited with R. J. Morris) The Victorian City: A Reader in British Urban History, 1820–1914 (Longmans, 1993)
  • (edited) European Urban History: Prospect and Retrospect (Leicester University Press 1993)
  • (edited) Scottish Housing in the Twentieth Century (Leicester University Press, 1989)
  • Housing in Urban Britain 1780–1914: Class, Capitalism and Construction (Macmillan, 1989)

References
  1. "Professor Richard Rodger", Edinburgh University. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
  2. "Professor Richard Rodger", University of Leicester. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
  3. "Fellows – R", Royal Historical Society. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
  4. "Fellows", Academy of Social Sciences. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
  5. "Professor Richard Rodger: Publications", Edinburgh University. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
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