Julia Barrow

Barrow was born on 5 December 1956 in north-central London, England^[1] to historian Prof. Geoffrey Barrow and his wife Heather Elizabeth Agnes (née Lownie).^[2] She was educated at Westfield School, an all-girls private school in Newcastle upon Tyne.^[2] She studied Mediaeval History at the University of St Andrews, and graduated with an undergraduate Master of Arts (MA) degree in 1978.^[3][4] She then undertook postgraduate research at the University of Oxford, and completed her Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree in 1983.^[3] Her doctoral thesis was titled "The Bishops of Hereford and their acta 1163–1219".^[5]

Barrow was a research fellow at the University of Sheffield from 1982 to 1984, and at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation from 1984 to 1986.^[6] From 1986 to 1989, she was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Birmingham. Then, from 1989 to 1990, she worked for the Victoria County History of Cheshire.^[3] From 1990 to 2012, she was a lecturer at the University of Nottingham: she was promoted to senior lecturer in 1999 and to reader in 2004.^[6] In 2012, she moved to the University of Leeds where she had been appointed Professor in Medieval Studies and Director of its Institute for Medieval Studies.^[3]

Barrow is a member of the Council of the Royal Historical Society.^[4] Since 2014, she has been a member of the Joint Committee on Anglo-Saxon Charters.^[7] Since 2016, Barrow has been the editor of the journal Northern History.

On 23 October 1997, Barrow was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA).^[8] In July 2016, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the UK's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences.^[9][10] She is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS).^[11] In 2018, she appeared on University of Leeds Women of Achievement Roll of Honour.^[12]

• Barrow, Julia S.; Brooks, N. P., eds. (2005). St Wulfstan and his world. Aldershot: Ashgate. ISBN 978-0754608028.
• Barrow, Julia; Wareham, Andrew, eds. (2007). Myth, rulership, church and charters: essays in honour of Nicholas Brooks. Aldershot: Ashgate. ISBN 978-0754651208.
• Barrow, Julia (2015). The Clergy in the Medieval World: Secular Clerics, their Families and Careers in North-Western Europe, c.800–c.1200. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1107086388.
• Balzaretti, Ross; Barrow, Julia; Skinner, Patricia, eds. (2018). Italy and early medieval Europe: papers for Chris Wickham (First ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0198777601.