Sarah Hutton

Professor Sarah Hutton is an Honorary Visiting Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of York. Her research focuses on early modern philosophy, particularly 17th-century British thought, with special attention to the Cambridge Platonists and women philosophers. She holds affiliations with multiple institutions globally, including visiting professorships at the University of Paris, Diderot, Paderborn University, and Barnard College/Columbia University. Hutton has held prestigious fellowships at the Huntington Library, the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), Wolfson College (Cambridge), and the University of St Andrews.

Her educational background includes studies at New Hall, University of Cambridge, and doctoral research at the Warburg Institute, University of London. She has taught at the University of Hertfordshire, Middlesex University, Aberystwyth University, and others. Hutton’s work spans monographs, edited collections, and articles on topics such as Anne Conway, Cambridge Platonism, and the intellectual contexts of early modern women.

Key awards and roles include directorship of the International Archives of the History of Ideas, editorial board memberships for Journal of the History of Philosophy and British Journal of the History of Philosophy, and former chair of the British Society for the History of Philosophy. She has delivered keynote lectures at conferences in Amsterdam, Helsinki, Oxford, and Toronto, addressing themes like women in philosophy, Newtonianism, and intellectual history methodologies.

Her research emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches to intellectual history, advocating for inclusive historiography that integrates marginalized voices. Current projects include editing Thomas Traherne’s Christian Ethicks and advancing scholarship on early modern women philosophers.