Name Robert Frost | ||
Books The northern wars, After the Deluge: Poland-Lithuania and the Second Northern War, 1655-1660 Education University of London, University of St Andrews | ||
Robert I. Frost (born c. 1960) is a British historian and academic. His interests are in the history of Eastern and Northern Europe of 14th-19th centuries, with primary focus on Poland-Lithuania and the history of warfare of the period.
He attended the University of St Andrews, the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. He earned his doctorate in the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at the University of London.
He taught school for three years in the mid-1980s. Frost became a temporary and permanent lecturer in history at King's College London, in 1987 and '88 respectively, and Reader in 2001. He was chosen to become Head of the college's School of Humanities in 2004, effective in August; in September, he accepted appointment as Professor of Early Modern History and Head of the School for Divinity, History and Philosophy at University of Aberdeen, Scotland, where he remained as of 2009. He holds the Burnett Fletcher Chair of History.