David Armitage Biography

David Armitage MA PhD CorrFRSE FRHistS FAHA is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at Harvard University where he teaches intellectual history and international history. He is also an Affiliated Faculty Member at Harvard Law School and an Honorary Professor of History at the University of Sydney.
He was born in Britain and educated at Cambridge University and Princeton University; before moving to Harvard in 2004 he taught for 11 years at Columbia University. A prize-winning teacher and writer he has lectured on six continents and has held research fellowships and visiting positions in Britain France the United States and Australia.
David Armitage is the author or editor of thirteen books among them The Ideological Origins of the British Empire which won the Longman/History Today Book of the Year Award The Declaration of Independence: A Global History which was chosen as a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year and Foundations of Modern International Thought. His most recent edited works are Shakespeare and Early Modern Political Thought also a TLS Book of the Year The Age of Revolutions in Global Context c. 1760-1840 a Choice Outstanding Academic Title and Pacific Histories: Ocean Land People. His articles and essays have appeared in journals and collections around the world and his works have been translated into Chinese Danish French Italian Japanese Portuguese and Spanish.

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