Centre for Business History in Scotland

Chair of Business History

Professor Ray Stokes holds the Chair of Business History in the Subject Area of Economic and Social History at the University of Glasgow. He succeeds Professor Tony Slaven, who retired from the post in October 2005.

Professor Stokes, who moved into the Chair of Business History from a Personal Chair in International Industrial History in the Department of Economic and Social History at the University of Glasgow, specialises in business and economic history and history of technology, with a particular focus on 20th century Germany. He is the author of three single-authored monographs, six joint-authored monographs, and two edited volumes.  He has also published a number of articles in refereed journals and edited collections, and has held a number of awards, grants, and fellowships.  He is a past President of the European Business History Association as well as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, and currently is the Executive Editor of Business History, a leading international journal in the discipline.

Stokes joined the Department as a lecturer in 1995, having worked previously for eight years as Assistant and then Associate Professor of History (with tenure) in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.  He holds degrees from New College of the University of South Florida and from the Ohio State University.