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Nicholas Canny (Penn Ph.D. 1971) is author or editor of 11 books and author of over 100 published papers. He specializes in early modern history broadly defined with particular attention to the histories of Ireland, Britain, Colonial British America and Atlantic History. His first book - based on his 1971 Penn Ph. D. thesis - The Elizabethan Conquest of Ireland a Pattern Established (Harvester Press, 1976) was awarded the Irish Historical Research Prize as was his major work Making Ireland British, 1580-1650 (Oxford U.P, 2001). His next book, Imagining Ireland’s Pasts, will be published by Oxford U.P. later in 2020. His influential edited and co-edited works include Colonial Identity in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800, edited with Anthony Pagden (Princeton U, P., 1987); The Origins of Empire, which appeared in 1998 as the first volume of the Oxford History of the British Empire, and  The Oxford Handbook of the Atlantic World, 1450-1850, edited with Philip Morgan, (2011). Nicholas Canny was Professor of History at the National University of Ireland, Galway, 1979-2009; President of the Royal Irish Academy, 2008-2011 and a Member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council, 2011-16. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Member of Academia Europaea, of the Real Academia de la Historia (Madrid) and of the American Philosophical Society.