Geoffrey Crossick

Geoffrey Joel Crossick PhD FRHistS (b. 13 June 1946) is a Professor of the Humanities at the School of Advanced Study, a postgraduate school of the University of London. He was formerly Vice-Chancellor of London University from 2010-12. According to The Times, he said he would leave the part-time role in July 2012 because the workload was more onerous than he anticipated when deliberately scaling down from a full-time to a part-time position. The part-time role had an annual salary of £135,000.

He is the son of Louis Crossick and Rebecca Naomi (née Backen). He was educated at The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, now an independent school in Elstree in Hertfordshire but at that time a direct grant school, followed by Gonville and Caius College at the University of Cambridge, and was awarded a BA in History in 1967. He did doctoral research at Birkbeck College of London University and was awarded PhD History in 1976.

He was a Research Fellow in history at Emmanuel College, Cambridge from 1970–73. He then became a Lecturer in Social History at the University of Hull from 1973–78. In 1979 he joined the University of Essex becoming a Reader and Professor of History from 1991–2002 and becoming Pro-Vice-Chancellor from 1997–2002.

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