Walker new editor of AHJ

              WALKER NEW EDITOR OF AHJ
Steve Walker as­sumes
the position of
Editor of the Account­ing
Historians Journal
as of January 1, 2001.
Steve is already accept­ing
manuscripts for
the June, 2001 issue.
Steve is Professor
of Accounting History
at the University of Edinburgh and was
Head of the Department of Accounting and
Business Method from 1998 to 2000. He
was born in King's Lynn, Norfolk, England
in 1960 and graduated BA (Hons) in
Economic History and Politics at the
University of Kent. His doctoral thesis on
recruitment to the chartered accountancy
profession in Edinburgh was awarded by the
University of Edinburgh in 1986 and pub­lished
by Garland in 1998 as The Society of
Accountants in Edinburgh: A study of
Recruitnent to a New profession 1853-1914.
He subsequently trained as a chartered
accountant with Ernst & Young and became
a member of The Institute of Chartered
Accountants of Scotland in 1991. On joining
the Department of Accounting and Business
Method in 1991 he continued to research in
accounting history and also teaches a course
in that subject. His work has appeared in
journals such as: The Accounting Historians'
Journal; Accounting, Business and Financial
History; Accounting History; Accounting;
Auditing and Accountability Journal;
Accounting, Organizations and Society; British
Accounting Review; Critical Perspectives on
Accounting; and Management Accounting
Research. He has also authored or joint
authored a number of monographs published
by The Institute of Chartered Accountants of
Scotland.
Steve was awarded the Basil Yamey
Prize for the best paper in Accounting,
Business and Financial History in 1993 and
the AHSIG Prize for the best paper in
Accounting History in 1996. In 1994 he
became an academic fellow of the Institute of
Chartered Accountants in England and
Wales. He has recently guest edited or joint
guest edited special issues of Accounting,
Business and Financial History (on Histories
of Accounting Professionalism,' 1999), Ac­counting,
Auditing and Accountability Journal
(on 'Accounting at Home', 2000) and
Accounting History (on 'Accounting in Crises',
2000). He serves on the editorial boards of
several journals and was recently appointed
as the Convenor of the Scottish Committee
of Accounting History of ICAS where he
succeeds past-president of the Academy,
Tom Lee. In 2001 he will be the AAA's
Distinguished International Lecturer. His
research interests include the history of the
accountancy profession, accounting in social
institutions, accounting in the home, cost­ing
in craft industries, and accounting and
white-collar crime.
Steve has been editor-elect of The
Accounting Historians' Journal since July and
becomes editor on January 1, 2001. Papers
should be submitted to him at:
Department of Accounting and
Business Method
University of Edinburgh
50 George Square
Edinburgh, Scotland, EH8 9JY, UK
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