The Association established the Honorary Foreign Membership in 1886 to recognize scholars working outside the United States who are distinguished for their work in the field of history.

2023
Gábor Klaniczay, Central European Univ., Hungary

2022
Sir Hilary Beckles, Univ. of the West Indies, Jamaica

2021
Mahesh Rangarajan, Krea Univ., India

2020
Hartmut Lehmann, Univ. of Kiel, Germany

2019
Ramachandra Guha, India

2018
Betty Wood, Girton Coll., Univ. of Cambridge, United Kingdom

2017
Patrick Fridenson, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, France

2016
Boubakar Barry, Univ. Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal

2015
Natsuki Aruga, Saitama Univ., Japan

2014
Roger Chartier, Collège de France, Paris, France

2013
Patrick O'Brien, London Sch. of Economics, United Kingdom

2012
Carlo Ginzburg, Italy

2011
Mechal Sobel, Univ. of Haifa, Israel

2010
Takeshi Hamashita, Inst. of Oriental Culture, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan

2009
Romila Thapar, Jawaharlal Nehru Univ., India

2008
Jacques Revel, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France

2007
João Reis, Univ. Federal da Bahia, Brazil

2006
Ida Blom, Norway

2005
Nikolai Bolkhovitinov, Russia

2004
Franco Amatori, Italy

2002
Boris Fausto, Brazil
P. J. Marshall, United Kingdom
Jack Pole, United Kingdom

2001
Eugene Yazkov, Russia

1999
Hans-Ulrich Wehler, Germany

1998
Manual Fraginals, Cuba

1997
David Ayalon, Israel

1996
Frantisek Smahel, Czech Republic

1995
Halil Inalcik, Turkey

1994
Eric Hobsbawm, United Kingdom

1993
Martin Njeuma, Cameroon

1992
Yoshinobu Shiba, Japan

1991
Luis de Albuquerque, Portugal

1990
Karl Bosl, Germany
Miguel Leon-Portilla, Mexico

1988
Albert Hourani, United Kingdom
Elisabeth Labrousse, France
Michelle Perrot, France
David Prodan, Romania
David Quinn, United Kingdom

1984
Fritz Fischer, Germany
Joseph Needham, United Kingdom

1982
Geoffrey Elton, United Kingdom
Christopher Hill, United Kingdom
Masao Maruyama, Japan
W. N. Medlicott, United Kingdom

1981
Guillaume DeBertier, France
Ragnhild Hatton, United Kingdom
Emmanuel LeRoy Ladurie, France
John Plumb, United Kingdom

1967
Herbert Butterfield, United Kingdom
Jean-Baptiste Duroselle, France
John Neale, United Kingdom
P. A. Zaionchkovskii, USSR

1966
Fernand Braudel, France
Denis Brogan, United Kingdom
Claude Cahen, France
Richard Southern, United Kingdom

1965
Jacques Godechot, France

1964
George Clark, United Kingdom

1963
Delio Cantimori, Italy
Winston Churchill, United Kingdom
Arnaldo Momigliano, Italy
Roland Mousnier, France
Ronald Syme, United Kingdom
Yasaka Takagi, Japan
Mikhail Tikhomirov, USSR
Pyong-do Yi, Korea

1961
Edouard Perroy, France
Mario Toscano, Italy
Sei Wada, Japan

1960
Francois-Louis Ganshof, Belgium
Keith Hancock, Australia
Saukichi Tsuda, Japan

1959
Gerhard Ritter, Germany

1958
Mehmet Koprulu, Turkey
Lewis Namier, United Kingdom
Silvio Zavala, Mexico

1957
Pieter Geyl, Netherlands

1955
Federico Chabod, Italy

1953
Georges Lefebvre, France

1952
Jadunath Sarkar, India
Franz Schnabel, Germany
Constantin Zureiq, Syria

1949
Alfons Dopsch, Austria
Charles Webster, United Kingdom

1947
Vicente Lecuna, Venezuela
Friedrich Meinecke, Germany
Pierre Renouvin, France

1945
Gaetano de Sanctis, Italy
George Gooch, United Kingdom
Halvdan Koht, Norway
Frederick Powicke, United Kingdom

1944
Rafael Altamira y Crevea, Spain
Domingo Amunátegui y Solar, Chile
Pierre Caron, France
Aage Friis, Denmark
Shih Hu, China
Johan Huizinga, Netherlands
Albert Pollard, United Kingdom
Afonso Taunay, Brazil
George Trevelyan, United Kingdom
George Wrong, Canada

1943
Benedetto Croce, Italy

1906
James Bryce, United Kingdom

1900
Theodor Mommsen, Germany

1899
Samuel Gardiner, England
William Stubbs, Bishop of Oxford, England

1886
Leopold von Ranke, Germany