Richard Carwardine

Born in Cardiff, Wales, the son of John Francis Carwardine and Beryl Jones, he attended Maesycwmmer Primary School and Monmouth School, before going up to Corpus Christi College, Oxford as William Jones Exhibitioner, graduating BA in Modern History 1968 (MA 1972). He pursued further studies in History at The Queen's College, Oxford, receiving a Doctor of Philosophy in 1975. Carwardine then went to the University of California, Berkeley, as the Ochs-Oakes Senior Scholar in American History and Institutions.

While a student at Oxford, Carwardine played the role of Cornelius in the film Doctor Faustus (1967) with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.

Carwardine taught American history at the University of Sheffield (1971–2002) where he also served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts. He was a Rhodes Professor of American History & Institutions at Oxford University and a Fellow of St Catherine's College from 2002 to 2009.[2] Elected President of Corpus Christi College, he took office in January 2010, becoming a Pro Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University.

• Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (1983)
• ACLS/Fulbright Fellow, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1989)
• Arthur Miller American Studies Prize (1997)
• Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship (2001–04)
• Lincoln Prize Laureate (2004)
• Fellow of the British Academy (2006)
• Order of Lincoln, State of Illinois (2009)

CMG insignia

• Honorary Fellow, St Catherine's College, Oxford (2009)
• Honorary Fellow, The Queen's College, Oxford (2009)
• Founding Fellow, The Learned Society of Wales (2010)
• Stewart Fellow, Princeton University (2011)
• Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers (2011)
• Lincoln Diploma of Honor, Lincoln Memorial University (2013)
• Honorary D.Litt., University of Sheffield (2015)
• Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) (2019)[3]
• Carwardine was inducted into The Lincoln Academy of Illinois and awarded the Order of Lincoln (the State's highest honour) by the Governor of Illinois in 2009 as a Bicentennial Laureate.[4]

Carwardine is a co-founder of the Abbey Shakespeare Players. The company present a Shakespeare play every summer at St. Dogmaels Abbey in Pembrokeshire.

• Carwardine, Richard. Transatlantic Revivalism: Popular Evangelicalism in Britain and America, 1790–1865. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1978. ISBN 0-313-20308-3 OCLC 4037176
• Carwardine, Richard. Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993. ISBN 0-300-05413-0 OCLC 26931100
• Carwardine, Richard. Abraham Lincoln and the Fourth Estate: The White House and the Press During the American Civil War. [Reading]: University of Reading, 2004. ISBN 0-704-91197-3 OCLC 61810490
• Carwardine, Richard. Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. ISBN 1-400-04456-1 OCLC 60421093
• Carwardine, Richard, and Jay Sexton. The Global Lincoln. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. ISBN 019537911X OCLC 666242533
• Carwardine, Richard. Lincoln's Sense of Humor. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2017. ISBN 978-0809336142

• Haberdashers' Company

• Lecture at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library
• Debrett's People of Today