Dr Tim Greenwood (SH 82-87) was elected as a ‘Correspondant étranger’ of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (part of the Institut de France) in July 2022.

The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres was founded in 1663 and ‘brings together individuals of exceptional qualification, representative of many walks of life. Academicians are scholars elected to the Academy for life by their peers, in recognition of their work in fields lying within the sphere of the Academy’s competence (archaeology, history, philology and their multiple divisions and specialist areas), of their high level of commitment and in respect to their international standing’. There are only ever 50 correspondants étrangers at any one time.

In 2023 , Tim was appointed Professor in the School of History at the University of St Andrews.