Richard Shaw

Richard Shaw is Professor and Chairman of the History Department at Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College, in Ontario, Canada. He has published on Antony of Egypt, Cassiodorus, Gregory of Tours, Augustine of Canterbury, Bede, Ælfric of Eynsham, Thomas Aquinas and François de Laval. He was awarded the 2014 Eusebius Essay Prize by the Journal of Ecclesiastical History and was shortlisted for the 2016 Medium Ævum Essay Prize.

Previously a diplomat for the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, serving in the Middle East, Richard also worked as a journalist in London after leaving Oxford University.