David Armitage (historian)

Professor
David Armitage
Born 1965 (age 5051)
Stockport, England
Alma mater University of Cambridge (BA, PhD)
Occupation Historian and academic
Employer Harvard University

David Armitage (born 1965) is a British historian known for his writings on international and intellectual history. He is chair of the history department and Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University.

Life and career

Armitage was born in Stockport, England and educated at Stockport Grammar School before attending the University of Cambridge where he read English as an undergraduate. After receiving his BA, he embarked on a PhD in English, initially intending to write his doctoral dissertation on Shakespeare's classical sources and the English neoclassical poets. During the course of his research, he became interested in the relationship between republicanism and empire in the works of John Milton and was increasingly attracted to the discipline of intellectual history. Funded by a Harkness Fellowship, he took two years off from his PhD to retrain as a historian at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study.[1] He was awarded his doctorate in history from Cambridge in 1992 with his dissertation The British empire and the civic tradition, 1656-1742, a study of the relationship between English literature and Britain's imperial ventures in the Americas.[2][3]

After completing his PhD, Armitage remained at Cambridge until 1993 as a junior research fellow at Emmanuel College. He then joined the history faculty at Columbia University during which time he spent 2000 and 2001 at Harvard University on a fellowship. He joined the faculty of Harvard in 2004, later becoming the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History. In 2008 Harvard named him a Walter Channing Cabot Fellow for "achievements and scholarly eminence in the fields of literature, history or art".[4] He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Royal Historical Society and the Australian Academy of the Humanities.[4]

Armitage's writing has followed and helped define many of the major trends in the historical profession, from Atlantic history to the digital humanities to Big History.[5] In addition, he has helped define new movements, particularly the international turn in intellectual history, considering the way European thinkers looked at the wider world. He has also produced works on conceptual history, including a book on the history of declarations of independence and a forthcoming volume on civil wars.

Armitage is married to Harvard history professor Joyce Chaplin.[6]

Books

Edited volumes

References

  1. Ittersum, Martine V. and Jacobs, Jaap (2012). "Are we all global historians now?". Itinerario, Vol. 6, Issue 2, pp. 7–28. Retrieved 19 June 2014.
  2. Institute of Historical Research. The British empire and the civic tradition, 1656-1742. Retrieved 19 June 2014.
  3. Erskine-Hill, Howard (1995). "Historical Commentary: Milton and Dryden", p. 74. Presenting Poetry: Composition, Publication, Reception. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521473608
  4. 1 2 Australian Academy of the Humanities. Fellows: Armitage, David, FAHA. Retrieved 19 June 2014.
  5. Reference needed
  6. Potier, Beth (7 October 2004). "Historian Armitage follows ideas where they take him". Harvard Gazette. Retrieved 19 June 2014.
  7. Marshall, P.J. (2011). "Review: The Ideological Origins of the British Empire by David Armitage". The International History Review, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 904–906. Retrieved 19 June 2014 (subscription required).
  8. Emmer, Pieter (2004). "Review: David Armitage, Greater Britain, 1516–1776: Essays in Atlantic History". Itinerario, Vol 28, Issue 3, pp 140–141. Retrieved 19 June 2014 (subscription required).
  9. Burnard, Trevor (2007). "Review: The Declaration of Independence: A Global History by David Armitage". Australasian Journal of American Studies, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 80–83. Retrieved 19 June 2014 (subscription required).
  10. Rech, Walter (2012). "Review: David Armitage: Foundations of Modern International Thought. International Journal of Constitutional Law, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp. 826–831. Retrieved 19 June 2014 (subscription required).
  11. Published as an Open Access Book DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781139923880

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