PRIVACY Postdoctoral Researcher Michaël Green elected as fellow of the Royal Historical Society

On 31 July 2020 it was announced that PRIVACY researcher, Michaël Green has been elected as fellow at the Royal Historical Society (United Kingdom), in recognition of his “original contribution to historical scholarship”. Michaël Green has received his PhD from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands in 2013, where he defended his dissertation The Huguenot Jean Rou (1635-1711): Scholar, Educator, Civil Servant, which was published two years later by Honoré Champion in Paris. Subsequently, he held various research and teaching positions at the University of Geneva, IEG-Leibniz Institute for European History in Mainz, Jagiellonian University in Cracow. He is the recipient of Huguenot Prize 2011 for research conducted by a promising young scholar. His new book, a scholarly edition of the Grand Tour letters of the Huguenot Paul Rapin-Thoyras and his pupil Viscount Woodstock 1701-1703, is currently in print with Honoré Champion.

Michaël Green has published on a range of topics in early modern history, such as religious minorities, social networking, history of education and nobility. Having joined PRVIACY team in 2018, he has since been leading the case-study of Amsterdam, where he focuses on religious culture, egodocuments and privacy. He currently examines how various egodocuments left by Dutchmen and women shed light on their understanding of privacy in their time. For more information on his research and publications, visit his Academia.edu webpage.


The RHS was founded in 1868. It is “a learned society with charitable status that is increasingly at the forefront of policy debates about the study of history.” 

Fellows are elected on the basis of “an original contribution to historical scholarship, normally through the authorship of a monograph, a body of scholarly work similar in scale and impact to a monograph, or the organisation of exhibitions.” The process includes being nominated by a fellow and being approved by the Council of the Society.

Congratulations to Michaël