Noel Malcolm

Sir Noel Malcolm is a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, University of Oxford, specializing in British and European early modern history with particular emphasis on intellectual history. His career spans editorial roles at The Spectator and Daily Telegraph, alongside academic positions at Cambridge and Oxford.

Research interests include:

• Textual scholarship on Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), encompassing political philosophy, ethics, metaphysics, theology, biblical criticism, and optics
• Western Europe's engagement with the Ottoman/Islamic world during the early modern period
• Historiographical analysis of Balkan history, particularly Albanian territories

Recent publications demonstrate expertise in Mediterranean cross-cultural interactions and textual recovery. He supervises DPhil and Masters students while leading the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Hobbes.

Awards and honors include:

• Fellow of the British Academy (FBA)
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL)
• Honorary Fellowships at multiple Cambridge colleges
• Member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences of Kosova

His editorial projects and fieldwork in Ottoman-Western relations have shaped contemporary understanding of early modern intellectual networks.