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David Armitage

Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History

David Armitage specializes in the genesis and transformation of international political thought in the early modern and modern era, with an emphasis on the ideological origins of British imperialism, declarations of independence, and ideas of civil war...

Ann Blair

Harvard College Professor, Henry Charles Lea Professor of History

Ann Blair specializes in the cultural and intellectual history of early modern Europe (16th-17th centuries), chiefly in France. She focuses on the history of the book and of education, the history of the disciplines and of scholarship, early modern...

Peter K. Bol

Harvard College Professor and Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Peter K. Bol is the Charles H. Carswell Professor East Asian Languages and Civilizations. His research is centered on the history of China's cultural elites from the Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties. He is the author of "This Culture of Ours:"...

Julian Bourg

Associate Professor of History

Boston College

Julian Bourg is associate professor of history at Boston College. He teaches European intellectual history. He is the translator of Claude Lefort’s Complications: Communism and the Dilemmas of Democracy (2007). Bourg serves on the editorial board of...

Joyce Chaplin

James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History

Joyce Chaplin's research interests include early American history, intellectual history, and environmental history. Her most recent book was Benjamin Franklin’s Political Arithmetic: A Materialist View of Humanity (2008). She is currently writing a 500...

Robert Darnton

Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the Harvard University Library

Robert Darnton has written and edited two dozen books, including The Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the Encyclopédie(1979, an early attempt to develop the history of books as a field of study), and The Great Cat Massacre and Other...

Peter E. Gordon

Amabel B. James Professor of History and Harvard College Professor

Peter E. Gordon is a specialist in modern European intellectual history, focusing primarily on German and French thought from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth century. He works chiefly on themes in Continental philosophy and social thought in...

James Hankins

Professor of History

James Hankins specializes in Renaissance intellectual history, chiefly the history of Renaissance political thought, history of philosophy, and history of the classical tradition. Read More

James T. Kloppenberg

Charles Warren Professor of American History

James T. Kloppenberg specializes in American intellectual history, and he has written about politics and ideas from the 17th century to the present; social democracy, pragmatism, and the relation between contemporary critical theory and historical...

Michael Puett

Professor of History

Michael Puett specializes in Chinese intellectual history, ethical theory and political thought, from circa 1200 B.C. to circa 755 A.D. Read more.

Emma Rothschild

Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History, and Director, Center for History and Economics

Emma Rothschild specializes in 18th century history, chiefly the history of economic thought and economic history. Read more.