Roger L Emerson

Roger L. Emerson spent most of his career at the University of Western Ontario where he taught European and British social and intellectual history and is now an emeritus professor. An Associate Editor of the 'Oxford Encyclopaedia of the Enlightenment' (2002) he is also the author of: 'Professors, Patronage and Politics: The Aberdeen Universities in the Eighteenth Century' (1992); 'Academic Patronage in the Scottish Enlightenment: Glasgow, Edinburgh and St AndrewsUniversities' (2008); and ...See more

Roger L. Emerson spent most of his career at the University of Western Ontario where he taught European and British social and intellectual history and is now an emeritus professor. An Associate Editor of the 'Oxford Encyclopaedia of the Enlightenment' (2002) he is also the author of: 'Professors, Patronage and Politics: The Aberdeen Universities in the Eighteenth Century' (1992); 'Academic Patronage in the Scottish Enlightenment: Glasgow, Edinburgh and St AndrewsUniversities' (2008); and 'Essays on David Hume, Medical Men and the Scottish Enlightenment: 'Industry, Knowledge and Humanity' ' (2009). His 2013 publication, 'An Enlightened Duke, the Life of Archibald Campbell (1682-1761), Earl of Ilay, 3rd Duke of Argyll', won The Saltire Society's 'Scottish History Book of the Year Award' in 2013. See less