Prof. Nikita Harwich has been accepted as member of the Academia Europaea, a European, non-governmental association acting as an Academy. Founded in 1988 and based in London, its members include leading experts (amongst them, thirty-eight Nobel Prize Laureates, several of whom were elected to the Academia before they received the prize) from the physical sciences and technology, biological sciences and medicine, mathematics, the letters and humanities, social and cognitive sciences, economics and law.
The Academia Europaea’s aim is to promote learning, education and research, through workshops, conferences, meetings and the writing of special reports. Professor Harwich has been asigned to the “History and Archaeology Section”. Some of his historian colleagues in the Academia include Maurice Agulhon, Jean Delumeau, Emmanuel Leroy-Ladurie, Carlo Ginzburg, Sir John Elliott, Theodore Zeldin or Wolfgang Mommsen.
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