Awards, Honours and Prizes
Awards and Honours
1973 Fellow of the Royal Historical Society from 1973
The Royal Historical Society works with professional historians to advance the scholarly study of the past. A learned society with charitable status, the RHS represents history as a discipline and historians as a group, working to promote the vitality of historical scholarship through support for research and publication with a particular interest in supporting and encouraging early career historians.
1988 Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
The Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada was established as Canada’s National Academy, the senior collegium of distinguished scholars, artists and scientists in the country. The primary objective of the Society is to promote learning and research in the arts, the humanities and the natural and social sciences.
2003 Honorary LLD by Guelph University
2013 Honorary Fellow, American Society for Legal History
1989 Lewis H. Thomas Distinguished Speaker, University of Alberta
1989 Armstrong-Gibson Lecturer, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
1998 Henrietta Harvey Distinguished Lecturer, Memorial University of Newfoundland
2000 John Edwards Memorial Lecturer, University of Toronto
Prizes
1986 Leo Gershoy Prize, American Historical Association
Awarded for Crime and the Courts in England, 1660-1800 (Princeton University Press)
The Leo Gershoy prize is awarded to the author of the most outstanding work published in English on any aspect of 17th- and 18th-century European history.
1987 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, Canadian Historical Association
Awarded for Crime and the Courts in England, 1660-1800 (Princeton University Press)
The Wallace K. Ferguson Prize recognises the outstanding scholarly book in a field of history other than Canadian history.
1987 John Ben Snow Prize, North American Conference on British Studies
Awarded for Crime and the Courts in England, 1660-1800 (Princeton University Press)
The John Ben Snow Prize is awarded annually by the North American Conference on British Studies for the best book by a North American scholar in any field of British Studies dealing with the period from the Middle Ages through the eighteenth century.
1987 Louis Gottschalk Prize, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Awarded for Crime and the Courts in England, 1660-1800 (Princeton University Press)
This prize is awarded annually for an outstanding historical or critical study on the eighteenth century.
1990 Francois-Xavier Garneau Prize, Canadian Historical Association
Awarded for Crime and the Courts in England, 1660-1800 (Princeton University Press)
The François-Xavier Garneau Medal is awarded every five years by the Canadian Historical Association. It honours an outstanding Canadian contribution to historical research in the previous five year period.
1992 Walter D. Love Prize, North American Conference on British Studies
Awarded for "Scales of Justice: Defense Counsel and the English Criminal Trial in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries", Law and History Review 9; 2 Fall 1991
The Walter D. Love Prize in History is awarded annually by the North American Conference on British Studies for the best article or paper of similar length or scope by a North American scholar in the field of British history.
1992 Donald W. Sutherland Prize, American Society for Legal History
Awarded for “Scales of Justice: Defense Counsel and the English Criminal Trial in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries,” Law and History Review, 9; 2 Fall 1991
The Donald W. Sutherland Prize is awarded annually, on the recommendation of the Sutherland Prize Committee, to the person or persons who wrote the best article on English legal history published in the previous year.
2008 Donald W. Sutherland Prize, American Society for Legal History
Awarded for “Sir John Fielding and Public Justice: The Bow Street Magistrate’s Court, 1754-1780,” Law and History Review, 25; 1 Spring 2007
The Donald W. Sutherland Prize is awarded annually, on the recommendation of the Sutherland Prize Committee, to the person or persons who wrote the best article on English legal history published in the previous year.