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David Armitage is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University, serving as Chair of the Department of History and Committee on Degrees in Social Studies. He holds honorary professorships at Queen’s University Belfast, University of Sydney, and other institutions globally. His research focuses on Atlantic history, intellectual history (1500–1800), and political thought. He has held fellowships at prestigious institutions including the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and the National Humanities Center.
Armitage earned his BA, MA, and PhD from the University of Cambridge, later becoming a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and an International Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He has authored/co-authored over 19 books, including Civil Wars: A History in Ideas (2017) and The History Manifesto (2014). His work emphasizes global and transnational approaches to history, bridging early modern and modern eras.
Key awards include the Caird Medal (2006), Longman/History Today Book Award (2001), and Harvard’s Walter Channing Cabot Fellowship (2008). Recent research explores treaty-making, opera and international law, and cosmopolitanism. He co-edits the Ideas in Context series and serves on editorial boards for major historical publications.
