DAVID ARMITAGE

Department of History
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
+1 617 495-8076
armitage@fas.harvard.edu
http://scholar.harvard.edu/armitage
https://twitter.com/#!/DavidRArmitage

Professional Career:

2007– Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History, Harvard University

2004–07 Professor of History, Harvard University

2003–04 Professor of History, Columbia University

2002–04 James R. Barker Professor of Contemporary Civilization,

Columbia University

1997–2003 Associate Professor of History, Columbia University

1993–97 Assistant Professor of History, Columbia University

Education:

1992 PhD, University of Cambridge

1990 MA, University of Cambridge

1988–90 Visiting Student, Princeton University

1986 BA, University of Cambridge: First Class Honours with Distinction

Visiting Positions, Fellowships and Affiliations:

2022–23 Honorary Fellow, Centre for the Study of the History of Political Thought,
Queen Mary University of London

2022 Visiting Research Fellow, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

2021– Senior Scholar, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies

2019–20 Sons of the American Revolution Visiting Professor, King’s College London

2018–19 Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin

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2018 Honorary Visiting Professor, Peking University

2017– Honorary Professor of History, Queen’s University Belfast

2017 Shinhan Distinguished Visiting Professor, Yonsei University

2016– Honorary Fellow, St Catharine’s College, Cambridge

2016 Visiting Professor, Freie Universität Berlin

2014– Affiliated Professor, Department of Government, Harvard University

2014–15 Visiting Fellow, The Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society,
University of Chicago

2014 Astor Visiting Lecturer, University of Oxford

2013– Affiliated Faculty, Harvard Law School

2011 Professeur invité, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

2009– Honorary Professor of History, University of Sydney

2008 Distinguished Research Visitor, University of York

2006–07 Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellow, The Henry E. Huntington Library

2006 Visiting Fellow, Humanities Research Centre, The Australian National

University

2004– Faculty Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard

University

2004 Visiting Fellow, Research School of Social Sciences, The Australian

National University

2002– Faculty Associate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies,

Harvard University

2001 Huntington Visiting Fellow, Lincoln College, Oxford

2000–01 Charles Warren Fellow, Harvard University

1996–97 Fellow, National Humanities Center

1996–97 Georges Lurcy Charitable and Educational Trust Faculty Fellow

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1992 Visiting Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities,
University of Edinburgh

1990–93 Junior Research Fellow, Emmanuel College, Cambridge

1990 Barbara S. Mosbacher Fellow, The John Carter Brown Library

1988–90 Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow

Election to Learned Societies:

2019– Foreign Member, Academia Europaea

2016– Corresponding Member, Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid

2011– Honorary Fellow, Australian Academy of the Humanities

2010– Corresponding Fellow, Royal Society of Edinburgh

2010– Member, Colonial Society of Massachusetts

2009– Honorary Fellow, Massachusetts Historical Society

2007– Member, American Antiquarian Society

1997– Fellow, Royal Historical Society

Honours and Awards:

2018 Citation of Merit, National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution

2018 Otto und Martha Fischbeck-Stiftung Grant

2015 LittD, University of Cambridge

2008– Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians

2008–09 Walter Channing Cabot Fellow, Harvard University

2006– Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize for Excellence in the Work of

Undergraduates and the Art of Teaching, Harvard University (five times)

2006 The Caird Medal, National Maritime Museum

2004 Percy G. Adams Prize, Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-

Century Studies
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2004 AM, ad eundem, Harvard University

2001 Longman/History Today Book of the Year Award

2001 John Anson Kittredge Educational Fund Grant

1996, 1998 Philip and Ruth Hettleman Teaching Award, Columbia University

1995 Irene Samuel Memorial Award, Milton Society of America

1992 British Academy Small Personal Research Grant

1986 Senior Scholar, St Catharine’s College, Cambridge

1986 Mrs Claude Beddington Prize in English Studies, University of Cambridge

1983 Entrance Scholar, St Catharine’s College, Cambridge

1983 Hesse Studentship, Aldeburgh Festival

Named and Public Lectures:

2023 Plenary Lecture, Japanese Conference for the Study of Political Thought

2022 The Sir Christopher Bayly Memorial Lecture, St Catharine’s College, Cambridge

2022 The R. M. Jones Lecture, Queen’s University Belfast

2022 The Bland-Lee Lecture, Clark University

2022 C. H. Alexandrowicz Memorial Lecture, Maharashtra National Law University

2021 Annual Lecture, Department of International History, London School of Economics

2021 Keynote Address, Septcentenary Conference on the Declaration of Arbroath,

Newbattle Abbey College

2021 Keynote Address, ‘Civil Wars in History, c. 1500–2000,’ University College Dublin

2020 The Sons of the American Revolution Annual Lecture, King’s College London

2019 The Droysen Lecture, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

2019 The Arthur Berriedale Keith Lecture, University of Edinburgh

2019 The John Burrow Memorial Lecture, University of Sussex

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2019 Annual Lecture, Sir Michael Howard Centre for the History of War,
King’s College London

2019 Abendkolloquium, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin

2018 The Frank Wright Memorial Lecture, Queen’s University Belfast

2018 The Daxia Forum Lecture, East China Normal University

2018 The Homer D. Crotty Lecture, The Henry E. Huntington Library

2018 István Hont Memorial Lecture, University of St Andrews

2017 The Grotius Lecture, American Society of International Law, Washington, DC

2017 The K. Th. Dimaras Lecture, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens

2017 The Allan Martin Lecture, The Australian National University

2017 Shinhan Lecture, Underwood International College, Yonsei University

2017 Bernard and Irene Schwartz Distinguished Speaker, New-York Historical Society

2017 Distinguished Speaker, College of Letters and Science, Montana State University

2017 Keynote Address, 29th Congress of Nordic Historians, Aalborg

2017 Annual Lecture, Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought, Oxford

2016 The Robert F. Allabaugh Class of 1934 Memorial Lecture, Dartmouth College

2016 Keynote Address, Nacht van de Geschiedenis, The Rijksmuseum

2016 Keynote Address, London Summer School in Intellectual History

2016 Keynote Address, International Society for Intellectual History, University of Crete

2016 Conferencia Magistral, Fundación Rafael del Pino, Madrid

2015 The Tom Sealy Lecture on Law and the Free Society,
University of Texas School of Law

2015 The Katherine Baker Memorial Lecture, University of Toronto Faculty of Law

2015 The Milton M. Klein Lecture, University of Tennessee

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2015 Keynote Address, Graduate Conference in Political Theory,

London School of Economics

2014 The Keith Sinclair Lecture, University of Auckland

2014 The Sir John Elliott Lecture in Atlantic History, Rothermere American Institute

2014 Keynote Address, Graduate Conference in Political Thought and Intellectual

History, University of Cambridge

2013 The John Patrick Diggins Memorial Lecture, CUNY Graduate Center

2013 The Maurice and Muriel Fulton Lecture, University of Chicago Law School

2013 ‘So, What?’ Lecture, University of New South Wales

2013 Distinguished Lecture, The Australian National University

2013 Keynote Address, International Graduate Historical Studies Conference,

Central Michigan University

2012 The Nicolai Rubinstein Lecture, Queen Mary, University of London

2012 The Ervin Frederick Kalb Lecture, Rice University

2012 Keynote Address, Finnish Historical Society, Helsinki

2012 Keynote Address, International Society for Utilitarian Studies, New York

2012 Keynote Address, Graduate History Conference, Louisiana State University

2011 Plenary Lecture, World Conference in Conceptual History, Buenos Aires

2011 Keynote Address, Institute of Law and History, Tel Aviv University

2010 The Wiles Lectures, Queen’s University Belfast

2010 The Costa Lecture, Ohio University

2010 The Adams Lecture, Salem Athenæum

2010 Keynote Address, Bluegrass Symposium, University of Kentucky

2010 Keynote Address, Idaho Council for History Education, Boise

2010 Conferencia Magistral, Archivo General de la Nación, Mexico City

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2009 Plenary Lecture, Japanese Association for the Study of Puritanism, Tokyo

2009 Plenary Lecture, Northeast Conference on British Studies, Providence

2009 Banquet Speaker, Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, Savannah

2008 Sydney Ideas Lecture, University of Sydney

2007 Plenary Lecture, Southern Conference on British Studies, Richmond

2006 The Caird Lecture, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich

2006 Plenary Lecture, Australian Historical Association, Canberra

2005 Keynote Address, South African Historical Society, Cape Town

2003 The Robert P. Benedict Lectures in Political Philosophy, Boston University

2003 The William Howard Taft Lecture in History, University of Cincinnati

2001 Plenary Lecture, 70th Anglo-American Conference of Historians, London

1998 The George W. Knepper Lecture, University of Akron

Invited lectures and presentations: University of Aberdeen; Academia Sinica;

University of Adelaide; All Souls College, Oxford; American Antiquarian Society;
University of Amsterdam; Aoyama Gakuin University; Universität Augsburg; Australian
National University; Barnard College; Universität Bayreuth; Bellagio Center; Berlin-
Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften; Universität Bielefeld; Boston Book
Festival; Boston College; Boston University; British Library; Broad Street Humanities
Review; Brown University; Bucknell University; University of California, Berkeley;
University of California, Irvine; University of California, Los Angeles; University of
California, Riverside; University of Cambridge; University of Cape Town; La Casa dei
Pensieri, Bologna; Central Michigan University; Centre for Policy Research, Delhi;
Chautauqua Institution; Cheltenham Literature Festival; University of Chicago; William
Andrews Clark Memorial Library; Clemson University; College of Charleston; Collège de
France; Colonial Williamsburg Foundation; Columbia Law School; Columbia University;
University of Connecticut; Consulat général de France à New York; CUNY Graduate
Center; Dartmouth College; Deutsches Historisches Institut, Paris; Duke University; Duke
University School of Law; Durham Law School; East China Normal University; École des
Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; University of Edinburgh; Universität Erfurt; Erik
Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights; Universidade do Estado do Rio
de Janeiro; European Science Foundation; European University Institute; Universidade
Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Festivaletteratura, Mantua; Florida State University; Folger
Shakespeare Library; Foreign Policy Research Institute; Albert-Ludwigs-Universität
Freiburg; Freie Universität Berlin; Fudan University; Fundación Consejo España-EE.UU;
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Georgetown University; Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History; University of

Glasgow; Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; Google; Georg-August-Universität
Göttingen; Government College University, Lahore; Griffith University; Universität
Hamburg; Hartford Public Schools; Harvard Bookstore; Harvard Business School; Harvard
Center for Hellenic Studies; Harvard Kennedy School; Harvard Law School; Harvard
University; Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Universität Heidelberg; University of
Helsinki; Higher School of Economics, St Petersburg; Huizinga Institute; Humboldt-
Universität zu Berlin; Hungarian Academy of Sciences; Henry E. Huntington Library;
Indiana University; Institute of Historical Research; Irish Historical Society; Jaipur
Literature Festival; Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena; Jindal Global Law School; John
Carter Brown Library; Johns Hopkins University; Kent State University; University of
Kentucky; King’s College London; Kwansei Gakuin University; Kyoto University;
Lauterpacht Centre for International Law; Liberty Fund; Library of Congress; Universidade
de Lisboa; University of London; London School of Economics; Louisiana State
University; University of Macau; Macquarie University; University of Maine; Maryland
Historical Society; Massachusetts Historical Society; Matthias Corvinus Collegium; Max
Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law; University of Miami;
University of Michigan; Mississippi State University; Montana State University; Università
degli Studi di Napoli ‘L’Orientale’; National Archives of the United States; National
Constitution Center; National History Center; National Humanities Center; National
Maritime Museum; National Taiwan University; National Tsing Hua University; National
University of Ireland, Galway; National University of Singapore; Newberry Library;
Newcastle University; University of New Hampshire; New School University; University
of New South Wales; New-York Historical Society; New York University; New York
University School of Law; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; North Carolina State
University; Northeastern University; Northwestern University; University of Notre Dame;
Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture; University of Oxford;
Panteion University; Université de Paris X-Nanterre; Peking University; University of
Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania State University; Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Pontifícia
Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro; Princeton University; Prinz-Albert-Gesellschaft;
Queen Mary University of London; Queen’s University; Queen’s University Belfast;
University of Queensland; University of Reading; Reid Hall; Rothermere American
Institute; Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences; Russian Academy of Sciences;
Rubicon Institute, Budapest; Rutgers University; University of St Andrews; St Catharine’s
College, Cambridge; Universidade de São Paulo; School of Advanced Study; Seigakuin
University; Seoul National University; University of Sheffield; Shizuoka University;
Smithsonian Institution; Society of Colonial Wars; Sons of the American Revolution;
Sophia University; Sorbonne Université; University of South Carolina; University of
Southern California; Stanford University; University of Sussex; University of Sydney;
University of Tartu; Thomas Jefferson Foundation; University of Tokyo; University of
Toronto; United States Naval Academy; University College Dublin; University College
London; Uppsala University; University of Utah; Ünnepi Könyvhét; Vanderbilt University;
Università di Verona; Victoria University of Wellington; University of Virginia; Virginia
Festival of the Book; University of Wales, Bangor; University of Warwick; Waseda
University; Washington University; Wesleyan University; Diplomatische Akademie Wien;
Williams College; University of Wisconsin, Madison; Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin; Yale
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Center for British Art; Yale Law School; Yale University; University of York; Zürich
Liest.

Books:

Civil Wars: A History in Ideas (Alfred A. Knopf; Penguin Random House Canada; Yale
University Press, 2017; pbk., Vintage, 2018; Italian translation, Donzelli Editore, 2017;
Chinese translation, China CITIC Press, 2018; German translation, Klett-Cotta Verlag,
2018; Spanish translation, Alianza Editorial, 2018; Japanese translation, Iwanami
Shoten, 2019; Greek translation, Crete University Press, 2020; Hungarian translation,
Rubicon Intézet, 2022; Portuguese translation, Companhia das Letras: in press; Korean
translation, Geulhangari: in progress), xii + 353 pp. [Starred Review, Booklist and
Publishers Weekly, 2016; Australian Book Review Book of the Year, 2017; History
Book Club Main Selection, 2017]

– ‘Special Review Issue: David Armitage’s Civil Wars: A History in Ideas,’ Global
Intellectual History, 4, 3 (2019): 288–346.

– ‘Book Forum: David Armitage, Civil Wars: A History in Ideas,’ Critical Analysis
of Law, 4, 2 (Fall 2017): 129–89.

(with Jo Guldi) The History Manifesto (Cambridge University Press, 2014; revised edition,
2015; Russian translation, Ab Imperio, 1/2015: 21–75; 2/2015: 25–61; 3/2015: 23–71;
4/2015: 27–89; Italian translation, Donzelli Editore, 2016; Spanish translation, Alianza
Editorial, 2016; Turkish translation, Türkiye İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları, 2016;
Chinese translation, Truth & Wisdom Press, 2017; Japanese translation, Tōsui Shobō,
2017; Korean translation, with new preface, Hanul Ak’ademi, 2018; Portuguese
translation, Autêntica Editora, 2018), x + 165 pp. [New Statesman Book of the Year,
2014; Chronicle of Higher Education Most Influential Book of the Past 20 Years,
2018]

– Antonia Criscenti, ed., A proposito dell’History Manifesto. Nuove tendenze per la

ricerca storico-educativa (Fondazione Nazionale ‘Vito Fazio-Allmayer,’ 2016).

– ‘Viewpoint: The History Manifesto and the History of Science,’ Isis, 107, 2 (June
2016): 309–57.

– ‘The History Manifesto: A Discussion,’ Memoria e ricerca, 51, 1 (January–April

2016): 97–126.

– ‘The History Manifesto. Et symposium,’ Temp–Tidsskrift for historie, 11

(December 2015): 131–50.

– ‘Historians of the World, Unite! Tavola rotonda su The History Manifesto,’

Ricerche di Storia Politica (8 October 2015): http://www.ricerchedistoriapolitica.it/.
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– ‘AHR Exchange: On The History Manifesto,’ American Historical Review, 120, 2

(April 2015): 527–54.

Foundations of Modern International Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2013;

Japanese translation, Hosei University Press, 2015; Chinese translation, Zhejiang
University Press, 2017; Spanish translation, Guillermo Escolar Editor: in progress), xii
+ 300 pp.

– ‘Special Issue: David Armitage’s Foundations of Modern International Thought,’

History of European Ideas, 41, 1 (January 2015): 1–130.

– ‘Critical Exchange: Foundations of Modern International Theory,’ Contemporary

Political Theory, 13, 4 (November 2014): 387–418.

The Declaration of Independence: A Global History (Harvard University Press, 2007; pbk.
2008; Italian translation, Utet, 2008; French translation, L’Atalante, 2009; Portuguese
translation, Companhia das Letras, 2011; Japanese translation, Minerva Shobō, 2012;
Spanish translation, Marcial Pons, 2012; simplified Chinese translation, with new
preface, The Commercial Press, 2014, reissued 2020; traditional Chinese translation,
Linking Publishing Company: in progress), vi + 300 pp. [TLS Book of the Year, 2007]

– ‘Round Table: The Declaration of Independence: A Global History,’ RSA

Journal: Rivista di Studi Americani, 20 (2009): 79–108.

– ‘Critical Forum: The Declaration of Independence: A Global History,’ William

and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., 65, 2 (April 2008): 347–69.

Greater Britain, 1516–1776: Essays in Atlantic History (Ashgate, 2004), xii + 292 pp.

The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2000; Japanese
translation, with new preface, Nihon Keizai Hyōronsha, 2005; Chinese translation,
Social Sciences Academic Press: in press), xi + 239 pp. [Longman/History Today Book
of the Year Award, 2001]

Edited Books:

(ed.) John Locke, Colonial Writings, The Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke
(Oxford University Press: in progress).

(co-ed., with Stella Ghervas) A Cultural History of Peace in the Age of Enlightenment
(Bloomsbury Academic, 2020), xii + 187 pp.

(co-ed., with Alison Bashford and Sujit Sivasundaram) Oceanic Histories (Cambridge
University Press, 2018; Chinese translation, Truth & Wisdom Press: in press), x + 328
pp.
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– ‘Roundtable: Oceanic Histories,’ Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History,

19, 2 (Summer 2018): https://muse.jhu.edu/article/700167.

(co-ed., with Jennifer Pitts) C. H. Alexandrowicz, The Law of Nations in Global History
(Oxford University Press, 2017; Japanese translation, with new preface, Nihon Keizai
Hyōronsha, 2020), xviii + 432 pp.

(co-ed., with Alison Bashford) Pacific Histories: Ocean, Land, People (Palgrave
Macmillan, 2014; simplified Chinese translation, China Ocean Press: in press;
traditional Chinese translation, Council of Indigenous Peoples: in progress), xvi + 371
pp.

– ‘Review Forum: Pacific Histories,’ Journal of Pacific History, 50, 2 (June 2015):
229–40.

(co-ed., with Sanjay Subrahmanyam) The Age of Revolutions in Global Context, c. 1760–
1840 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), xxxii + 301 pp. [Choice Outstanding Academic
Title, 2010]

(co-ed., with Conal Condren and Andrew Fitzmaurice) Shakespeare and Early Modern
Political Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2009; pbk. 2012), xii + 289 pp. [TLS
Book of the Year, 2009]

(ed.) British Political Thought in History, Literature and Theory, 1500–1800 (Cambridge
University Press, 2006; pbk. 2010), xii + 326 pp.

(ed.) Hugo Grotius, The Free Sea (Liberty Fund, 2004; corrected rpt. 2010), xxv + 145 pp.

(co-ed., with Michael J. Braddick) The British Atlantic World, 1500–1800 (Palgrave
Macmillan, 2002; expanded 2nd edn. 2009), xx + 324 pp.

(ed.) Theories of Empire, 1450–1800 (Ashgate, 1998), xxxiii + 388 pp.

(ed.) Bolingbroke: Political Writings (Cambridge University Press, 1997; rpt. China
University of Political Science and Law Press, 2003), xliv + 305 pp.

(co-ed., with Armand Himy and Quentin Skinner) Milton and Republicanism (Cambridge
University Press, 1995; pbk. 1998), xii + 281 pp. [Irene Samuel Memorial Award,
Milton Society of America, 1995]

Essays:

‘John Locke, Treaties, and the Two Treatises of Government,’ in Teresa Bejan and Felix
Waldmann, eds., The Political Thought of John Locke: New Perspectives (Oxford
University Press: in progress).
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‘Afterword: Unsocial Sociability,’ in Stefanos Geroulanos and Gisèle Sapiro, eds., The
Routledge Handbook of Intellectual History and the Sociology of Ideas (Routledge: in
progress).

‘Epilogue: Refloating the Historian’s Craft,’ in Nadin Heé, Stefan Hübner, Ian J. Miller and
William Tsutsui, eds., Oceanic Japan: The Archipelago in Pacific and Global History
(University of Hawai‘i Press: in progress).

‘Declarations of Independence and the Law of Nations,’ in Liliana Obregón, Juan Amaya-
Castro and Laura Betancur-Restrepo, eds., The Oxford Handbook of International Law
and the Americas (Oxford University Press: in press).

(with Ignacio de la Rasilla) ‘“The Most Neglected Province”: British Historiography of

International Law,’ in Randall Lesaffer and Anne Peters, eds., The Cambridge History
of International Law, I: Introduction (Cambridge University Press: in press).

‘Cosmopolitanism and Civil War,’ in Joan-Pau Rubiés and Neil Safier, eds.,
Cosmopolitanism and the Enlightenment (Cambridge University Press: in press);
Japanese translation in Ryuichi Narita and Takahiko Hasegawa,
eds.,〈世界史〉をいかに語るか: グローバル時代の歴史像 (Iwanami Shoten, 2020)
pp. 188–210.

‘In Defense of Presentism,’ in Darrin M. McMahon, ed., History and Human Flourishing
(Oxford University Press, 2022), pp. 59–84.

‘Foreword,’ in Ben Lowe, ed., Political Thought and the Origins of the American
Presidency (University Press of Florida, 2021), pp. xi–xiv.

(with Stella Ghervas) ‘Introduction: From Westphalia to Enlightened Peace, 1648–1815,’

in Stella Ghervas and David Armitage, eds., A Cultural History of Peace in the Age of
Enlightenment (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020), pp. 1–18.

(with Alison Bashford and Sujit Sivasundaram) ‘Writing World Oceanic Histories,’ in
David Armitage, Alison Bashford and Sujit Sivasundaram, eds., Oceanic Histories
(Cambridge University Press, 2018), pp. 1–27.

‘The Atlantic Ocean,’ in Armitage, Bashford and Sivasundaram, eds., Oceanic Histories,
pp. 85–110; rptd. (expanded), The Historical Review/La revue historique, 15, 1 (2018):
341–61; Chinese translation, Studies of Maritime History, 20 (2022): in press.

‘We Have Always Been Federal,’ in Robert Schütze and Stephen Tierney, eds., The United
Kingdom and the Federal Idea (Hart Publishing, 2018), pp. 277–84.

‘Three Narratives of Civil War: Recurrence, Remembrance and Reform from Sulla to
Syria,’ in Karine Deslandes, Fabrice Mourlon and Bruno Tribout, eds., Civil War and
Narrative: Testimony, Historiography, Memory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), pp. 1–18.
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(with Jennifer Pitts) ‘“This Modern Grotius”: An Introduction to the Life and Thought of
C. H. Alexandrowicz,’ in C. H. Alexandrowicz, The Law of Nations in Global History,
ed. David Armitage and Jennifer Pitts (Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 1–31;
Polish translation in Anna Przyborowska-Klimczak and Wojciech Staszewski, eds.,
Polska Nauka Prawa Międzynarodowego–Dziedzictwo Przeszłości i Wyzwania
Współczesności (Wydawnictwo Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II: in
press).

(with Julia Gaffield) ‘The Haitian Declaration of Independence in an Atlantic Context,’ in

Julia Gaffield, ed., The Haitian Declaration of Independence: Creation, Context, and
Legacy (University of Virginia Press, 2016), pp. 1–22.

‘Every Great Revolution Is a Civil War,’ in Keith Michael Baker and Dan Edelstein, eds.,
Scripting Revolution: A Historical Approach to the Comparative Study of Revolutions
(Stanford University Press, 2015), pp. 57–68, 369–71; Greek translation, Σύγχρονα
Θέματα, 134–35 (July–December 2016): 77–85.

‘The International Turn in Intellectual History,’ in Darrin M. McMahon and Samuel Moyn,
eds., Rethinking Modern European Intellectual History (Oxford University Press,
2014), pp. 232–52; rptd. (abridged), The Global Journal, 15 (January 2013): 22–25;
Chinese translation, Intellectual History (Taipei), 1 (2013): 213–41; Chinese translation
(abridged), Historiography Quarterly (Beijing), 94 (April 2015): 4–9; Portuguese
translation, Intelligere: Revista de História Inteletual, 1, 1 (December 2015): 1–15;
German translation (revised) in Eva Marlene Hausteiner and Sebastian Huhnholz, eds.,
Imperien verstehen. Titel, Typen und Transformationen globaler Macht (Nomos
Verlag, 2019), pp. 39–69; Spanish translation (revised) in Martín González and Juan
Manuel Romero, eds., Nuevos debates y corrientes en la historia intelectual (Editorial
Universitaria de Buenos Aires: in press).

– ‘Critical Forum: The International Turn in Intellectual History,’ Intellectual

History (Taipei), 1 (2013): 243–416.

(with Alison Bashford) ‘The Pacific and its Histories,’ in David Armitage and Alison
Bashford, eds., Pacific Histories: Ocean, Land, People (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014),
pp. 1–28.

‘Foreword,’ in R. R. Palmer, The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of

Europe and America, 1760–1800 (Princeton University Press, 2014), pp. xv–xxii; rptd.
(abridged), The Times Literary Supplement, 5789 (21 March 2014): 14–15; French
translation, Le Débat, 184 (March–April 2015): 187–92.

‘Declaraciones de independencia 1776–2011. Del derecho natural al derecho

internacional,’ in Alfredo Ávila, Jordana Dym and Erika Pani, eds., Las declaraciones
de Independencia. Los textos fundamentales de las independencias americanas (El
Colegio de México-UNAM, 2013), pp. 19–41.
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‘John Locke: Theorist of Empire?,’ in Sankar Muthu, ed., Empire and Modern Political
Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 84–111; Japanese translation, Journal
of the College of Literature, Aoyama Gakuin University, 51 (March 2010): 1–28;
Portuguese translation in Eunice Ostrensky and Patricio Tierno, eds., Teoria, Discurso
e Ação Política (Alameda Casa Editorial, 2013), pp. 131–63.

‘The American Revolution in Atlantic Perspective,’ in Nicholas Canny and Philip Morgan,
eds., The Oxford Handbook of the Atlantic World, 1450–1850 (Oxford University
Press, 2011), pp. 516–32; rptd. (expanded) in Philip D. Morgan and Molly A. Warsh,
eds., Early North America in Global Perspective (Routledge, 2014), pp. 309–36;
Spanish translation (expanded), 20/10: El mundo atlántico y la modernidad
iberoaméricana, 1750–1850, 1 (2012): 9–33.

‘Secession and Civil War,’ in Don H. Doyle, ed., Secession as an International

Phenomenon: From America’s Civil War to Contemporary Separatist Movements
(University of Georgia Press, 2010), pp. 37–55.

‘Afterword,’ in Robert Frank and David Armitage, The Declaration of Independence (The
Limited Editions Club, 2010), pp. 17–37.

(with Sanjay Subrahmanyam) ‘The Age of Revolutions, c. 1760–1840: Global Causation,

Connection and Comparison,’ in David Armitage and Sanjay Subrahmanyam, eds., The
Age of Revolutions in Global Context, c. 1760–1840 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), pp.
xii–xxxiii, 218–23.

‘John Locke’s International Thought,’ in Ian Hall and Lisa Hill, eds., British International
Thinkers from Hobbes to Namier (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), pp. 33–48.

(with Conal Condren and Andrew Fitzmaurice) ‘Introduction,’ in David Armitage, Conal
Condren and Andrew Fitzmaurice, eds., Shakespeare and Early Modern Political
Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 1–22.

‘Shakespeare’s Properties,’ in Armitage, Condren and Fitzmaurice, eds., Shakespeare and

Early Modern Political Thought, pp. 25–43; Spanish translation, Revista de Occidente,
351 (July–August 2010): 107–28.

‘The Declaration of Independence in World History,’ in Peter S. Onuf and Christian Y.

Dupont, eds., Declaring Independence: The Origin and Influence of America’s
Founding Document (University of Virginia Library, 2008), pp. 31–40.

‘The World of 1607,’ in The World of 1607 (Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, 2007), pp.
1–6; Spanish translation (abridged), ABCD: Las artes y las letras, 810 (11–17 August
2007): 12.

‘Hobbes and the Foundations of Modern International Thought,’ in Annabel Brett and
James Tully, eds., Rethinking the Foundations of Modern Political Thought
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(Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. 219–35; Spanish translation (expanded),

Derechos y libertades, 15, 2 (June 2006): 17–46.

‘Introduction,’ in David Armitage, ed., British Political Thought in History, Literature and
Theory, 1500–1800 (Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. 1–9.

‘The Scottish Diaspora,’ in Jenny Wormald, ed., Scotland: A History (Oxford University
Press, 2005), pp. 272–303.

‘Monstrosity and Myth in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,’ in Laura Lunger Knoppers and
Joan B. Landes, eds., Monstrous Bodies/Political Monstrosities in Early Modern
Europe (Cornell University Press, 2004), pp. 200–26.

‘Is There a Pre-history of Globalization?,’ in Deborah Cohen and Maura O’Connor, eds.,
Comparison and History: Europe in Cross-National Perspective (Routledge, 2004), pp.
165–76.

‘Introduction,’ in Hugo Grotius, The Free Sea, ed. David Armitage (Liberty Fund, 2004;
corrected rpt. 2010), pp. xi–xx.

‘Parliament and International Law in the Eighteenth Century,’ in Julian Hoppit, ed.,
Parliaments, Nations and Identities in Britain, 1660–1850 (Manchester University
Press, 2003), pp. 169–86.

‘Empire and Liberty: A Republican Dilemma,’ in Martin van Gelderen and Quentin
Skinner, eds., Republicanism: A Shared European Heritage, 2 vols. (Cambridge
University Press, 2002), II, pp. 29–46; rptd. in Richard Whatmore, ed., Intellectual
History, III: Classic Essays by Intellectual Historians (Routledge, 2015), pp. 230–48.

(with Michael J. Braddick), ‘Introduction,’ in David Armitage and Michael J. Braddick,

eds., The British Atlantic World, 1500–1800 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002; 2nd edn.
2009), pp. 1–7.

‘Three Concepts of Atlantic History,’ in Armitage and Braddick, eds., The British Atlantic
World, 1500–1800, pp. 11–27, 250–54; rptd. (abridged) in Alison Games and Adam
Rothman, eds., Major Problems in Atlantic History (Houghton Mifflin, 2007), pp. 16–
23; Spanish translation, Revista de Occidente, 281 (October 2004): 7–28; Portuguese
translation, História Unisinos, 18, 2 (May/August 2014): 206–17; Chinese translation,
Studies of Maritime History, 20 (2022): in press.

‘The Political Economy of Britain and Ireland after the Glorious Revolution,’ in Jane H.
Ohlmeyer, ed., Political Thought in Seventeenth-Century Ireland: Kingdom or Colony
(Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 221–43.
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‘The British Conception of Empire in the Eighteenth Century,’ in Franz Bosbach and
Herman Hiery, eds., Imperium/Empire/Reich: Ein Konzept politischer Herrschaft im
deutsch-britischen Vergleich (Saur Verlag, 1999), pp. 91–107.

‘Literature and Empire,’ in Nicholas Canny, ed., The Oxford History of the British Empire,
I: The Origins of Empire (Oxford University Press, 1998), pp. 99–123.

‘Introduction,’ in David Armitage, ed. Theories of Empire, 1450–1800 (Ashgate, 1998), pp.
xv–xxxiii.

‘Introduction,’ in Bolingbroke: Political Writings, ed. David Armitage (Cambridge

University Press, 1997), pp. vii–xxiv.

‘John Milton: Poet Against Empire,’ in David Armitage, Armand Himy and Quentin
Skinner, eds., Milton and Republicanism (Cambridge University Press, 1995), pp. 206–
25.

‘The Scottish Vision of Empire: Intellectual Origins of the Darien Venture,’ in John
Robertson, ed., A Union for Empire: Political Thought and the British Union of 1707
(Cambridge University Press, 1995), pp. 97–118.

‘The New World and British Historical Thought: From Richard Hakluyt to William
Robertson,’ in Karen Ordahl Kupperman, ed., America in European Consciousness,
1493–1750 (University of North Carolina Press, 1995), pp. 52–75.

‘The Darien Venture,’ in Scotland and the Americas, 1600 to 1800 (The John Carter Brown
Library, 1995), pp. 3–13.

Journal Articles:

‘1320, 1776, and All That: A Tale of Two “Declarations”,’ Scottish Historical Review, 101,
Issue Supplement (December 2022): in press.

‘George III and the Law of Nations,’ William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., 79, 1 (January
2022): 3–30.

‘Treaties in Danger? Contemporary Crises of International Order in Historical Perspective,’

Ricerche di storia politica, 24, 2 (June 2021): 141–55; Japanese translation, Pacific and
American Studies, 21 (2021): 69–83.

‘John Locke, die Kolonie und die Verträge,’ Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte, 14, 1 (Spring
2021): 69–84.

‘内戦–思想における歴史,’ Aoyama Shigaku, 38 (2020): 163–73.

‘Fighting Words? A Reply to My Critics,’ Global Intellectual History, 4, 3 (2019): 334–46.

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(participant) ‘Rubrica: Una discussione attorno alla «Modern Intellectual History»,’

Ricerche di storia politica, 21, 3 (December 2018): 323–34.

(with Alison Bashford and Sujit Sivasundaram) ‘Oceanic Histories: Editors’ Response,’
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, 19, 2 (Summer 2018):
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/700167.

‘Civil War Time: From Grotius to the Global War on Terror,’ Proceedings of the Annual
Meeting (American Society of International Law), 111 (2017): 3–14; American
University International Law Review, 33, 2 (January 2018): 313–33.

‘On the Genealogy of Quarrels,’ Critical Analysis of Law, 4, 2 (Fall 2017): 179–89.

(with Jo Guldi) ‘Longing for the Longue Durée,’ Isis, 107, 2 (June 2016): 353–57.

‘Civil Wars, From Beginning … to End?,’ American Historical Review, 120, 5 (December
2015): 1829–37.

‘Wider Still and Wider: Corporate Constitutionalism Unbounded,’ Itinerario, 39, 3

(December 2015): 501–03.

(with Alison Bashford) ‘Pacific Histories: Editors’ Response,’ Journal of Pacific History,
50, 2 (June 2015): 237–40.

(with Jo Guldi) ‘Le retour de la longue durée: une perspective anglo-américaine,’ Annales.
Histoire, Sciences Sociales, 70, 2 (April–June 2015): 289–318; rptd. (abridged), Aeon
Magazine (2 October 2014): http://aeon.co/magazine/society/how-history-forgot-its-
role-in-public-debate/; Chinese translation, Global History Review (Beijing), 6 (2013):
90–117; English translation, Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales–English Edition, 70,
2 (June 2015): 219–47; Dutch translation (abridged), Nexus, 69 (2015): 38–50; Arabic
translation (abridged), al-Thaqāfah al-‘ālamīyah, 181 (January 2016): 176–83.

– ‘La longue durée en débat,’ Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales, 70, 2 (April–
June 2015): 289–378; English translation, Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales–
English Edition, 70, 2 (June 2015): 215–303.

(with Jo Guldi) ‘Pour une “histoire ambitieuse”: une réponse à nos critiques,’ Annales.
Histoire, Sciences Sociales, 70, 2 (April–June 2015): 367–78; English translation,
Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales–English Edition, 70, 2 (June 2015): 293–303.

(with Jo Guldi) ‘The History Manifesto: A Reply to Deborah Cohen and Peter Mandler,’
American Historical Review, 120, 2 (April 2015): 543–54.

‘Horizons of History: Space, Time, and the Future of the Past,’ History Australia, 12, 1
(April 2015): 207–25; rptd. (abridged), The Australian Higher Education Supplement
(21 August 2013): 36; Polish translation, Historyka: Studia Metodologiczne, 46 (2016):
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229–47; Spanish translation, Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie IV, Historia Moderna, 29
(2016): 245–62.

‘Modern International Thought: Problems and Prospects,’ History of European Ideas, 41, 1
(January 2015): 116–30.

‘Shaking the Foundations: A Reply to My Critics,’ Contemporary Political Theory, 13, 4

(November 2014): 411–18.

‘The “International Turn”: A Reply to My Critics,’ with Chinese translation, Intellectual

History (Taipei), 1 (2013): 373–91, 393–416.

‘What’s the Big Idea? Intellectual History and the Longue Durée,’ History of European
Ideas, 38, 4 (December 2012): 493–507; rptd. (abridged), The Times Literary
Supplement, 5712 (21 September 2012): 13–15; rptd. in Richard Whatmore, ed.,
Intellectual History, IV: Controversies in Intellectual History (Routledge, 2015), pp.
197–214; Spanish translation, Ariadna Histórica. Lenguajes, conceptos, metáforas, 1
(2012): 15–39; Danish translation, Slagmark–Tidsskrift for idéhistorie, 67 (Summer
2013): 121–38; Portuguese translation, Revista de História das Ideias, 28 (2016): 9–33.

‘Globalizing Jeremy Bentham,’ History of Political Thought, 32, 1 (Spring 2011): 63–82.

(participant) ‘Interchange: Nationalism and Internationalism in the Era of the Civil War,’
Journal of American History, 98, 2 (September 2011): 455–89.

‘Ideas of Civil War in Seventeenth-Century England,’ Annals of the Japanese Association

for the Study of Puritanism, 4 (2009): 4–18.

‘A Reply to My Critics,’ RSA Journal: Rivista di Studi Americani, 20 (2009): 99–106.

‘The Declaration of Independence: Its Many Histories,’ William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd
ser., 65, 2 (April 2008): 359–64.

‘From Colonial History to Post-Colonial History: A Turn Too Far?,’ William and Mary
Quarterly, 3rd ser., 64, 2 (April 2007): 251–54.

‘The Elephant and the Whale: Empires of Land and Sea,’ Journal for Maritime Research,
9, 1 (2007): 23–36; Italian translation (expanded) in Ruth Ben-Ghiat, ed., Gli imperi.
Dall’antichità all’età contemporanea (Il Mulino, 2009), pp. 55–72.

‘The Contagion of Sovereignty: Declarations of Independence since 1776,’ South African

Historical Journal, 52, 1 (2005): 1–18.

‘The Elizabethan Idea of Empire,’ Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 6th ser., 14
(2004): 269–77.
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‘John Locke, Carolina, and the Two Treatises of Government,’ Political Theory, 32, 5
(October 2004): 602–27; rptd. (revised) in Peter R. Anstey, ed., John Locke: Critical
Assessments, I: Moral and Political Philosophy (Routledge, 2006), pp. 278–302; rptd.
in Richard Whatmore, ed., Intellectual History, II: Classic Essays—Philosophers
(Routledge, 2015), pp. 361–83.

‘The Declaration of Independence and International Law,’ William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd
ser., 59, 1 (January 2002): 39–64; rptd. in Ryan Patrick Hanley and Darrin M.
McMahon, eds., The Enlightenment: Critical Concepts in Historical Studies, V:
Revolutions (Routledge, 2009), pp. 43–68. [Percy G. Adams Prize, Southeastern
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2004]

‘Edmund Burke and Reason of State,’ Journal of the History of Ideas, 61, 4 (October
2000): 617–34.

‘Greater Britain: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis?,’ American Historical Review,

104, 2 (April 1999): 427–45.

‘Answering the Call: The History of Political and Social Concepts in English,’ History of
European Ideas, 25, 1–2 (January 1999): 15–22.

‘A Patriot for Whom? The Afterlives of Bolingbroke’s Patriot King,’ Journal of British
Studies, 36, 3 (October 1997): 397–418.

‘Making the Empire British: Scotland in the Atlantic World 1542–1707,’ Past and Present,
no. 155 (May 1997): 34–63.

‘The Cromwellian Protectorate and the Languages of Empire,’ The Historical Journal, 35,
3 (September 1992): 531–55.

‘The Procession Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I: A Note on a Tradition,’ Journal of the

Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 53 (1990): 301–07.

‘The Dismemberment of Orpheus: Mythic Elements in Shakespeare’s Romances,’

Shakespeare Survey, 39 (1987): 123–33.

‘A Poem in Praise of Ben Jonson,’ Notes & Queries, n. s. 34, 2 (June 1987): 230–32.

Newspaper, Magazine and Blog Articles:

‘Break the History Addiction: July 4 and the Perils of Celebrating America’s Past,’ The
New York Daily News, 104, 8 (3 July 2022): 26–27.

‘There’s No Better Way to Fly: Aboard the William and Mary Quarterly Once Again,’
Uncommon Sense (24 February 2022): https://blog.oieahc.wm.edu/theres-no-better-
way-to-fly/.
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‘An Inhuman Custom—An Archival Discovery Reveals What George III Thought About
Slavery,’ The Times Literary Supplement, 6195–96 (24/31 December 2021): 10–11.

‘The Declaration of Independence and the Origins of Modern Self-Determination,’ History

Now, 61 (Fall 2021): https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-
resources/essays/declaration-independence-and-origins-modern-self-determination.

‘George III and the Law of Nations,’ The SAR Magazine, 116, 1 (Summer 2021): 26–29.

‘Threats to Academic Freedom—A Comment,’ TRAFO—Blog for Transregional Research

(26 May 2021): https://trafo.hypotheses.org/29078.

‘How Trump Insults the Declaration,’ The New York Daily News, 102, 9 (4 July 2020): 18.

‘The Monarch in the White House,’ The New York Times, 58023 (14 July 2018): A21;
Portuguese translation, GaúchaZH (13 July 2018):
https://gauchazh.clicrbs.com.br/mundo/noticia/2018/07/trump-e-a-volta-do-direito-divino-
cjjkafq920rz201qo0n3858gc.html.

‘¿Se acabarán las guerras civiles?,’ Ideas, El País, 14854 (11 March 2018): 2–3;
Portuguese translation, El País Internacional (11 March 2018):
https://brasil.elpais.com/brasil/2018/03/09/internacional/1520589929_746901.html.

‘Latin Lessons on Civil War,’ BBC World Histories, 3 (April/May 2017): 20.

‘Talkin’ ’bout a Revolution,’ History Today, 67, 2 (February 2017): 72.

(with Fulvio Cammarano) ‘Dialogo: La storia perduta,’ La Lettura, 266, Corriere della
Sera (31 December 2016): 14–15.

‘The “Genealogy” of Civil Wars,’ ΧΡΟΝΟΣ, 37 (9 May 2016):

http://chronos.fairead.net/armitage-civil-wars.

‘Nicholas Henshall: Inspirational Schoolmaster Who Became a Leading Scholar of 18th-

Century Europe,’ History Today, 65, 11 (November 2015): 6.

‘Why Politicians Need Historians,’ The Guardian, 52284 (7 October 2014): 38.

(with Jo Guldi) ‘Let’s Look at the Evidence,’ Times Higher Education, 2171 (2 October
2014): 45–47; Spanish translation, Sobre Histeria (7 October 2014):
https://sobrehisteria.wordpress.com/2014/10/07/historia-la-clave-para-la-
decodificacion-de-grandes-datos/.

(with Jo Guldi) ‘The History Manifesto,’ History and Policy (October 2014):
http://www.historyandpolicy.org/historians-books/books/the-history-manifesto.
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(with Jo Guldi) ‘Look Beyond a Lifespan,’ History Today, 64, 10 (October 2014): 3–4.

‘The Words Heard Around the World,’ Wall Street Journal, 264, 4 (5–6 July 2014): C1–2.

(with Stella Ghervas) ‘The Power of Peace: Why 1814 Might Matter More Than 1914,’ E-
International Relations (7 April 2014): http://www.e-ir.info/2014/04/07/the-power-of-
peace-why-1814-might-matter-more-than-1914/.

‘The Anarchist Cinema of Peter Watkins,’ Perspectives on History, 51, 9 (December

2013): 23–25.

‘What Would Marx Say About Cairo?,’ Foreign Policy online (7 February 2011):
www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/02/07/what_would_marx_say_about_cairo.

‘Civil War and Revolution,’ Agora (Melbourne), 44, 2 (April 2009): 18–22.

‘The Shape of Wars to Come,’ The Sydney Morning Herald (19 July 2008): 33.

‘“That Excellent Forme of Government”: New Light on Locke and Carolina,’ The Times
Literary Supplement, 5299 (22 October 2004): 14–15.

‘The Declaration of Independence in World Context,’ OAH Magazine of History, 18, 3

(April 2004): 61–66; rptd. (revised) in Gary Reichard and Ted Dickson, eds., America
on the World Stage: A Global Approach to U.S. History (University of Illinois Press,
2008), pp. 17–28; rptd. (revised) in Elizabeth Cobbs and Edward J. Blum, eds., Major
Problems in American History, I: To 1877: Documents and Essays, 4th edn. (Cengage
Learning, 2015), pp. 115–20.

‘Did it [9/11] Change the World?,’ BBC History Magazine, 3, 9 (September 2002): 34.

‘“The Projecting Age”: William Paterson and the Bank of England,’ History Today, 44, 6
(June 1994): 5–10.

‘Christopher Columbus and the Uses of History,’ History Today, 42, 5 (May 1992): 50–55.

Review Essays:

‘Home and the World: The Legal Imagination of Martti Koskenniemi,’ International
Relations, 36 (2022): in press.

‘Spectres of Empire: The Hydro-Body, Hierarchy and Heredity in Dreamworlds of Race,’

Contemporary Political Theory, 21 (2022): in press.

‘The Long Road to Maastricht,’ Literary Review, 505 (March 2022): 32–33.

‘Documenting History,’ BBC History Magazine, 23, 4 (April 2021): 82–83.

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Review of David Bell, Men on Horseback: The Power of Charisma in the Age of
Revolution, H-Diplo Roundtable, 22, 31 (15 March 2021), 5–8: https://networks.h-
net.org/node/28443/discussions/7414147/h-diplo-roundtable-xxii-31-bell%C2%A0-
men-horseback-power-charisma-age.

‘When Companies Were Kings,’ The Times Literary Supplement, 6145 (8 January 2021):
22–23.

‘Water, Water Everywhere,’ The Times Literary Supplement, 6099 (21 February 2020):
10–11.

‘The Anti-Imperial Empire?,’ The Times Literary Supplement, 6018 (3 August 2018): 25.

‘A Labyrinth of Terror Made of Coral and a Fragile Global Wonder,’ Los Angeles Review
of Books (10 October 2014): http://lareviewofbooks.org/article/labyrinth-terror-made-
coral-fragile-global-wonder.

‘Western Weed,’ The Times Literary Supplement, 5808 (25 July 2014): 4–5.

‘Eyes Burned Out,’ The Times Literary Supplement, 5775 (6 December 2013): 10–11;
Spanish translation, Clionauta (13 January 2014): http://clionauta.hypotheses.org/13353.

‘Probing the Foundations of Tully’s Public Philosophy,’ Political Theory, 39, 1 (February
2011): 124–30.

‘Maps vs Chaps,’ Literary Review, 383 (December 2010/January 2011): 27–28.

‘13 to 18,’ The Times Literary Supplement, 5576 (12 February 2010): 7–8.

‘Noble-less,’ The Times Literary Supplement, 5550 (14 August 2009): 5.

Review of David C. Hendrickson, Union, Nation, or Empire: The American Debate over
International Relations, 1789–1941, H-Diplo Roundtable, 10, 25 (22 July 2009), 6–8:
www.h-net.org/~diplo/roundtables/PDF/Roundtable-X-25.pdf.

‘Good of Others,’ The Times Literary Supplement, 5538 (22 May 2009): 8.

‘Why We Share a Different History,’ The Times Literary Supplement, 5477 (21 March
2008): 31.

‘Past and Perilous,’ The Times Literary Supplement, 5425 (23 March 2007): 9.

Review of Jonathan Scott, Commonwealth Principles: Republican Writing of the English

Revolution, History of Political Thought, 26, 4 (2005): 739–43.
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‘The Fifty Years’ Rift: Intellectual History and International Relations,’ Modern
Intellectual History, 1, 1 (April 2004): 97–109.

‘The Red Atlantic,’ Reviews in American History, 29, 4 (December 2001): 479–86.

‘The Pocockiad,’ Lingua Franca, 10, 3 (April 2000): 54–55.

‘The Global History of the Seven Years’ War,’ Common-place, 1, 1 (September 2000):
http://www.common-place-archives.org/vol-01/no-01/crucible/crucible-armitage.shtml.

‘Out of This World,’ London Review of Books, 17, 22 (16 November 1995): 15–16.

‘The Last War of Religion,’ London Review of Books, 16, 11 (9 June 1994): 11–12.

‘European-New World Encounters,’ Cambridge Quarterly, 22, 4 (December 1993): 413–

16.

‘The Devil You Know …,’ History Today, 43, 12 (December 1993): 52–53.

‘Dead or Alive,’ History Today, 41, 3 (March 1991): 61–62.

‘“Pocky Poetts” and Politics,’ History Today, 38, 6 (June 1988): 58–59.

Short reviews in Albion; American Historical Review; Common Knowledge; Economic

History Review; Eighteenth-Century Scotland; Grotiana; The Historical Journal; History of
European Ideas; International Journal of Cultural Property; Journal of American History;
Journal of British Studies; Journal of Historical Geography; Journal of Imperial and
Commonwealth History; Journal of Interdisciplinary History; Journal of Modern History;
Perspectives on Politics; Renaissance Quarterly; Scottish Historical Review; The
Scriblerian; The Times Literary Supplement.

Encyclopedia Articles:

(with Jennifer Pitts) ‘Charles Henry Alexandrowicz (1902–75),’ in David Cannadine, ed.,
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2018):
https://doi.org/10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.111220.

‘The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina,’ in Andrew W. Robertson, ed., The

Encyclopedia of United States Political History, I: Colonial Beginnings through
Revolution, 1500–1783 (CQ Press, 2010), pp. 142–44.

‘Edmund Fanning (1737–1818),’ ‘Henry Lord (1563–?),’ ‘William Paterson (1658–1719),’

‘Samuel Purchas (1577–1626),’ in H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison, eds., The
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 60 vols. (Oxford University Press, 2004),
XIX, p. 16; XXXIV, pp. 437–38; XLIII, pp. 28–29; XLV, pp. 575–76.
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‘Adam Ferguson (1723–1816),’ ‘Catharine Macaulay (1731–91),’ ‘John Millar (1735–

1801),’ in D. R. Woolf, ed., A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing, 2 vols.
(Garland Publishing, 1998), I, pp. 312–13; II, pp. 578, 624.

‘Discoveries in the New World,’ in Hans J. Hillerbrand, ed., The Oxford Encyclopedia of
the Reformation, 4 vols. (Oxford University Press, 1996), I, pp. 486–87.

‘Exploration of the New World,’ in David Crystal, ed., The Cambridge Biographical
Encyclopedia (Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 1052–53.

Interviews and Autobiography:

‘A polgárháborús hangnem mindig megelőzi a valódi erőszak elharapózását,’ 24.hu (18

July 2022): https://24.hu/kultura/2022/07/18/david-armitage-interju-polgarhaboruk-
tortenesz-harvard-orosz-ukran-haboru-egyesult-allamok-irak-afganisztan-konyv.

‘David Armitage: Sokan most „hideg polgárháborúról” beszélnek Amerikában,’ Neokohn

(3 July 2022): https://neokohn.hu/2022/07/03/amerikai-tortenesz-sokan-mar-hideg-
polgarhaborurol-beszelnek-amerikaban/.

‘Kifüggesztett koponya,’ Magyar Nemzet, 85, 152 (2 July 2022), Lugas: 3.

‘Mi manapság a történészek feladata?,’ Mandiner (26 June 2022):

https://mandiner.hu/cikk/20220626_david_armitage_tortenelem.

‘David Armitage,’ in Mauricio Meglioli, ed., Los Historiadores y sus Libros (Guillermo
Escolar Editor, 2021), pp. 151–63.

‘Eating One’s Own: Examining Civil War,’ in Howard Burton, ed., Conversations About
History: Volume 3 (Open Agenda Publishing, 2021), pp. 183–232.

‘Zum ewigen Frieden? Ein wikologischer Entwurf,’ in Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, ed.,

Jahrbuch 2018/2019 (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, 2020), pp. 21–25.

‘国际思想史：对话⼤卫‧阿⽶蒂奇,’ World History Review (Shanghai), 7, 2 (2020): 215–

37; rptd. Chinese Social Sciences Net (24 July 2020):
http://www.cssn.cn/sjs/sjs_djft/202007/t20200724_5159734.shtml?COLLCC=3976994
701&.

‘“Trump e Johnson seminano il caos dove serve ordine”,’ La Lettura, 406, Corriere della
Sera (8 September 2019): 15.

‘Bürgerkrieg? Sicher nicht!,’ Neue Zürcher Zeitung am Sonntag, 42 (21 October 2018): 61.

‘Zerstörung treibt uns,’ Der Freitag, 41, Sachbuch (11 October 2018): IV–V.
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‘Entrevista: David Armitage, la guerra y sus historias’ ABC Cultural, 1336 (30 June 2018):
14–15.

‘Mi primera declaración de independencia: Entrevista a David Armitage,’ ¡La Leche!, 9

(Summer 2018): 56–59.

‘专访历史学家阿⽶蒂奇：从伊拉克到叙利亚，什么是“内战”,’ Pengpai (29 May

2018): http://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_2141903.

‘对话⼤卫·阿⽶蒂奇 重构历史中的“内”战,’ Beijing News Weekly (26 May 2018): B10.

‘Ντέιβιντ Αρμιτατζ: «Η πολιτική αποκτά διαιρετικό, φυλετικό και πικρόχολο

χαρακτήρα»,’ Το Βήμα (13–14 January 2018): 42–43.

‘“Possiamo dire che oggi tutte le guerre sono guerre civili”,’ Giornale de Brescia (29
September 2017): 39.

‘“In ogni rivoluzione c’è una guerra civile”,’ Corriere del Ticino (27 September 2017): 31.

‘Firehundredårskrigen,’ Weekendavisen, 34 (25 August 2017): 8–9.

‘Før blev krige udkæmpet mellem stater. I dag er alle krige borgerkrige,’ Dagbladet
Information (20 July 2017): https://www.information.dk/udland/2017/07/dag-krige-
borgerkrige.

‘We Have Now Moved to War Within States,’ Hindustan Times (2 May 2017):
http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/we-have-now-moved-to-war-within-
states-harvard-historian-david-armitage/story-SvREyJeoLTQJ6H99jXpmCL.html.

‘Harvard Historian Armitage: US at a “Very Delicate Moment”,’ Deutsche Welle (16

February 2017): https://www.dw.com/en/harvard-historian-armitage-us-at-a-very-
delicate-moment/a-37582952.

‘Are We on the Verge of Another Civil War?,’ The Nation (8 February 2017):
https://www.thenation.com/article/are-we-on-the-verge-of-another-civil-war/.

‘The Modern World’s Mass Violence is Almost Entirely Due to Civil Wars,’ Maclean’s (7
February 2017): http://www.macleans.ca/culture/the-modern-worlds-mass-violence-is-
almost-entirely-due-to-civil-wars/.

‘Foundations of Modern International Thought’, Faculti (28 November 2016):

https://faculti.net/foundations-of-modern-international-thought/.

‘Entrevista: David Armitage,’ Crónica, El Mundo, 9801 (23 October 2016): 16–17.
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‘Entrevista: David Armitage, Historiador,’ Ideas, El País, 14327 (25 September 2016): 8–
9.

‘Misli znalca: prof. dr. sc. David Armitage,’ Rostra, 9, 7 (2016): 245–48.

‘Ντέιβιντ Αρμιτατζ: «Επανάσταση και εμφύλιος πόλεμος είναι σιαμαίοι δίδυμοι»,’ Το

Βήμα (7–8 May 2016): 20–21.

‘Denk weer over de langere termijn,’ Het Parool (16 May 2015): 44–45.

‘Les historiens ont-ils les idées courtes? Entretien avec David Armitage,’ La vie des idées
(24 June 2014): http://www.laviedesidees.fr/Les-historiens-ont-ils-les-idees.html.

‘Are We All Global Historians Now? An Interview with David Armitage,’ Itinerario, 36, 2
(August 2012): 7–28; rptd. in Carolien Stolte and Alicia Schrikker, eds., World
History—A Genealogy: Private Conversations with World Historians, 1996–2016
(Leiden, 2017), pp. 307–35.

‘La interconectividad del pasado debería hacernos más humildes ante la globalización del
presente: Entrevista a David Armitage,’ Nuevo Mundo/Mundos Nuevos, 12 (2012):
http://nuevomundo.revues.org/62721.

‘A Confluence of Dreams: Exploring the American Origins of Israel’s Declaration of

Independence,’ The Jerusalem Post Magazine (23 December 2011): 10–12.

‘Entrevista com David Armitage: Impérios que viram Estados,’ Revista de História da
Biblioteca Nacional (Rio de Janeiro), 74 (November 2011):
www.revistadehistoria.com.br/secao/entrevista/imperios-que-viram-estados.

‘Kirjavieras David Armitage: “USA:n Itsenäisyysjulistuksen Periaatteet on Unohdettu”,’

Ulkopolitiikka, 44, 4 (Winter 2007): 60–63.

‘Historian Armitage Follows Ideas Where They Take Him,’ Harvard Gazette (7 October
2004): https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2004/10/historian-armitage-follows-
ideas-where-they-take-him/.

‘Columbia Crown Is Instructive for History’s David Armitage,’ Columbia News (27 June
2001): http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/01/06/davidArmitage.html.

Academic Administration:

2021–22 Planning Committee, Department of History, Harvard University

2021–22 Graduate Admissions Chair, Department of History, Harvard University

2021 Acting Chair, Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard University

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2020– Executive Committee and Steering Committee, Weatherhead Center for

International Affairs, Harvard University

2019– Scholars at Risk Committee, Harvard University

2018 Parliamentarian, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University

2012–16 Chair, Department of History, Harvard University (on leave, 2014–15)

2012–13 Humanities Working Group, Harvard University

2009–22 Standing Committee on Higher Degrees in American Studies, Harvard

University

2009–12 Executive Committee, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs,

Harvard University

2008– Australian Studies Committee, Harvard University

2008–12 Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History, Harvard University

(on leave, 2010–11)

2008–09 Co-chair, Ad Hoc General Education Committee, Harvard University

2007–18 Steering Committee on Degrees in History and Literature, Harvard University

2007–17 Planning Committee, Department of History, Harvard University

2005 Social Studies Review Committee, Harvard University

2004– Standing Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard University

2002–04 Chair, Contemporary Civilization, Columbia University

2002–04 Committee on the Core Curriculum, Columbia University

2002–03 Personnel Committee, Department of History, Columbia University

2001–04 Governing Board, Society of Fellows in the Humanities, Columbia University

2001–02 Chair, Undergraduate Education Committee, Department of History,

Columbia University

1997–2004 Contemporary Civilization Advisory Committee, Columbia University

1997–99 Placement Officer, Department of History, Columbia University

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Professional Activities:

2023– Trustee, The Wiles Trust, Queen’s University Belfast

2022– Scientific Committee, Center for European Studies, Università di Verona

2021– Council member, The Pacific Circle

2021– Advisory Council, Association for Global Political Thought

2021– Advisory Committee, ‘The Ongoing Declaration,’ Museum of the American

Revolution

2020– Collaborating Scholar, Research Centre for Deep History,

The Australian National University

2020– Scholarly Advisory Board, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

2020 Toynbee Prize Committee, Toynbee Prize Foundation

2018– Project advisor, Women and the History of International Thought,

Leverhulme Trust/University of Oxford

2018– Editorial board, Journal of Applied History

2018–19 Fellows’ speaker, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin

2017 Peer Review Panel, European Research Council

2017 External assessor, Chair of Intellectual History, University of Tartu

2016– Editorial board, Global Intellectual History

2016– Editorial board, Revista de História das Ideias

2015– Series editor, Cambridge Oceanic Histories, Cambridge University Press

2015– Editorial board, Pakistan Journal of Historical Studies

2015– Advisory board, Khaldunia Centre for Historical Research, Lahore

2014– International board, St Andrews Institute of Intellectual History

2014–20 Editorial board, Heidelberg Studies in Transculturality

2014 Review Committee, Department of History, University of Southern California

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2013– Editorial board, History and Theory of International Law, Oxford University Press

2013– Academic Steering Committee, Open Library of the Humanities

2013– Editorial board, Intellectual History (Taipei)

2013– Trustee, Toynbee Prize Foundation

2012– International advisory board, Il Pensiero politico

2012– Editorial board, History of European Ideas

2011 Jury member, The George Washington Book Prize

2010– Editorial board, Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History

2010– Editorial board, Tauris Historical Geography Series

2010– Editorial board, Economic Ideas that Built Europe, Anthem Press

2010– Academic Advisory Board, Institute for Constitutional History,

The New-York Historical Society

2010–12 Series editor, The Enlightenment World, Pickering & Chatto

2009– Series editor, Ideas in Context, Cambridge University Press

2009–18 Editorial board, Journal of the History of Ideas

2009–14 Series editor, Princeton Foundations Library, Princeton University Press

2009 External assessor, Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Indiana University

2008–22 Board of Syndics, Harvard University Press

2007–11 Seminar director, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

2007–11 Co-chair, International Conference for the Study of Political Thought

2007–10 Editorial board, Renaissance Studies

2006– Editorial board, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

2006– Executive Committee, Conference for the Study of Political Thought

2005–07 Nominating Committee, North American Conference on British Studies

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2004– Editorial board, Modern Intellectual History

2004 Review Committee, Department of History, City College of New York

2002– Steering Committee, Center for the History of British Political Thought,
The Folger Shakespeare Library

2002–08 Series editor, Studies in Early Modern History, Boydell Press

2002–05 Editorial board, Journal of Modern History

2002–05 Morris D. Forkosch Prize Committee, American Historical Association

Assessor for tenure and promotion: University of Aberdeen; Academia Sinica; Barnard
College; Birkbeck, University of London; Università di Bologna; Boston College;
University of British Columbia; Bryn Mawr College; University of California, Berkeley;
University of California, Los Angeles; University of Cambridge; University of Chicago;
University of Chicago Law School; Columbia University; University of Connecticut;
Cornell University; University of Cyprus; Dartmouth College; University of Denver;
Emory University; Florida State University; Georgia Institute of Technology; Harvard
Business School; Harvard Law School; Indiana University; The Johns Hopkins University;
National University of Ireland, Galway; National University of Singapore; Newcastle
University; University of New South Wales; New York University; University of Notre
Dame; University of Oxford; University of Pennsylvania; Princeton University; Queen
Mary University of London; Queen’s University; Rice University; Rutgers University;
University of St Andrews; Southern Methodist University; University of Sydney;
University of Virginia; University College London; Yale University.

Assessor for fellowships, grants and honours: Agence nationale de la recherche; All
Souls College, Oxford; American Academy in Berlin; American Council of Learned
Societies; Arcadia Fund; Arts and Humanities Research Board; Australian Academy of the
Humanities; Australian Honours and Awards Secretariat; Australian Research Council;
British Academy; Calgary Institute for the Humanities; Canada Council; Churchill College,
Cambridge; Council on Library and Information Resources; Durham University; Early
Career Research Fellowships, University of Cambridge; Economic and Social Research
Council; Emmanuel College, Cambridge; European Research Council; Fonds
Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek-Vlaanderen; Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge;
Grinnell College; Holberg Prize; Institute for Advanced Study; Institut d’études avancées
de Nantes; International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World; Irish Research
Council for Humanities and Social Sciences; Israel Science Foundation; The John Carter
Brown Library; King’s College, Cambridge; Leverhulme Trust; John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation; Magdalene College, Cambridge; Andrew W. Mellon Foundation;
National Humanities Center; National Science Foundation; Nederlandse Organisatie voor
Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek; North/South Research Programmes (Republic of
Ireland/Northern Ireland); Riksbankens Jubileumsfond; Royal Irish Academy; Royal
Society of Edinburgh; Royal Society of New Zealand; St John’s College, Cambridge;
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Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; Swedish Collegium for
Advanced Study; Swiss National Science Foundation; Trinity College, Cambridge;
Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.

Journal referee: American Historical Review; American Journal of Sociology; American

Political Science Review; Annales HSS; Cambridge Review of International Affairs;
Canadian Journal of History; Comparative Studies in Society and History; Early American
Studies; Eighteenth-Century Studies; The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation;
English Historical Review; European Journal of International Law; European Journal of
Political Theory; Explorations in Renaissance Culture; The Historical Journal; Historical
Research; History Australia; History Compass; History of the Human Sciences; History of
Political Thought; Humanity; Huntington Library Quarterly; Intellectual History Review;
International History Review; International Relations; International Studies Quarterly;
International Studies Review; International Theory; Itinerario; Journal of British Studies;
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History; Journal of the Early Republic; Journal of
Global History; Journal of the History of Ideas; Journal of the History of International
Law; Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History; Journal of Modern History; Journal
of Politics; Journal of Transatlantic Studies; Law and History Review; Law, Culture and
the Humanities; Locke Studies; Millennium: Journal of International Studies; Modern
American History; Modern Intellectual History; Nationalities Papers; Nations and
Nationalism; Pakistan Journal of Historical Studies; Philosophical Quarterly; Political
Theory; Renaissance Quarterly; Renaissance Studies; Review of International Studies;
Shakespeare Quarterly; Studi lockiani; Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture; Studies in
History and Philosophy of Science; Transactions of the Royal Historical Society; William
and Mary Quarterly; Yale Law Journal.

Publisher’s referee: Ashgate Publishing; Atlantic Monthly Press; Blackwell Press;

Bloomsbury Academic; Boydell Press; British Academy; University of California Press;
Cambridge University Press; University of Chicago Press; Columbia University Press;
Duke University Press; Edinburgh University Press; Hackett Publishing; Harvard
University Press; Longman Press; Manchester University Press; Marshall Cavendish;
University of Michigan Press; University of Nebraska Press; New York University Press;
Oxford University Press; Palgrave Macmillan; Penguin Books; University of Pennsylvania
Press; Pickering & Chatto; Polity Press; Princeton University Press; Routledge; Royal
Historical Society; I. B. Tauris; Yale University Press.

Doctoral Dissertations Supervised:

Aden Knaap, ‘Judging the World: A History of Global Governance, 1899–1971’ (Harvard
University, in progress).

Louis Gerdelan (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Beckman Center, Science History

Institute), ‘Calamitous Knowledge: Disaster Research in the British, French and
Spanish Atlantic Worlds, c. 1605–1755’ (Harvard University, 2021).
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Benjamin W. Goossen (Postdoctoral Fellow, Stevanovich Institute, University of Chicago),

‘The Year of the Earth (1957–58): Cold War Science and the Making of Planetary
Consciousness’ (with Prof. Alison Frank Johnson; Harvard University, 2021).

Joshua Ehrlich (Assistant Professor, University of Macau), ‘The East India Company and
the Politics of Knowledge, 1772–1835’ (Harvard University, 2018); under review,
Cambridge University Press.

Gregory Afinogenov (Associate Professor, Georgetown University), ‘The Eye of the Tsar:
Intelligence-Gathering and Geopolitics in Eighteenth-Century Eurasia’ (Harvard
University, 2016); Spies and Scholars: Chinese Secrets and Imperial Russia’s Quest for
World Power (Harvard University Press, 2020): Thomas J. Wilson Prize, Harvard
University Press, 2019; W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize, Association for Slavic, East
European and Eurasian Studies, 2021.

Marco Basile (Climenko Fellow, Harvard Law School), ‘The Slave Trade and the
Foundations of U.S. International Legal Thought, 1808–1870’ (Harvard University,
2016).

Dzavid Dzanic (Associate Professor, Austin Peay State University), ‘The Civilizing Sea:
The Ideological Origins of the French Mediterranean Empire, 1792–1870’ (Harvard
University, 2016); under consideration, Cambridge University Press.

Jamie Martin (Assistant Professor, Harvard University), ‘Experts of the World Economy:
European Stabilization and the Reshaping of International Order, 1916–51’ (Harvard
University, 2016): Harold K. Gross Dissertation Prize, 2016; The Meddlers:
Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance (Harvard
University Press, 2022).

Holger Droessler (Assistant Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute), ‘Islands of Labor:

Community, Conflict, and Resistance in Colonial Samoa, 1889–1919’ (with Prof. Sven
Beckert; Harvard University, 2015); Coconut Colonialism: Workers and the
Globalization of Samoa (Harvard University Press, 2022).

Mira Siegelberg (Associate Professor, University of Cambridge), ‘The Question of

Questions: The Problem of Statelessness in International History, 1921–1961’ (Harvard
University, 2014): Harold K. Gross Dissertation Prize, 2014; Statelessness: A Modern
History (Harvard University Press, 2020); Bentley Book Prize, World History
Association, 2021; Francesco Guicciardini Prize, International Studies Association,
2022; Certificate of Merit, American Society for International Law, 2022.

Anna Su (Associate Professor, University of Toronto Faculty of Law), ‘The Laws on

Religious Liberty and the Rise of American Power’ (with Prof. Noah Feldman; SJD,
Harvard Law School, 2013); Exporting Freedom: Religious Liberty and American
Power (Harvard University Press, 2016).
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Tristan M. Stein (Project Manager, California Little Hoover Commission), ‘The

Mediterranean and the English Empire of Trade, 1660–1748’ (Harvard University,
2012).

Kelly De Luca (Associate Professor, Algoma University), ‘Beyond the Sea: Extraterritorial
Jurisdiction and English Law, c. 1575 – c. 1640’ (Columbia University, 2008).

Ryan Tucker Jones (Ann Swindells Associate Professor of Global History, University of
Oregon), ‘Empire of Extinction: A Natural History of Russian Expansion in the
Eighteenth-Century North Pacific’ (Columbia University, 2008); Empire of Extinction:
Russians and the North Pacific’s Strange Beasts of the Sea, 1741–1867 (Oxford
University Press, 2014).

Lisa Ford (Professor, University of New South Wales), ‘Settler Sovereignty: Jurisdiction
and Indigenous People in Georgia and New South Wales, 1788–1836’ (Columbia
University, 2007): Bancroft Dissertation Award, 2007; Settler Sovereignty: Jurisdiction
and Indigenous People in America and Australia, 1788–1836 (Harvard University
Press, 2010): Thomas J. Wilson Prize, Harvard University Press, 2008; New South
Wales Premier’s General History Award, 2010; Littleton-Griswold Prize in American
Law and Society, American Historical Association, 2010.

†Emily Harding, ‘Political Thought in the British Caribbean, 1750–1785’ (Columbia

University, 2007).

Travis Glasson (Associate Professor, Temple University), ‘Missionaries, Slavery, and

Race: The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts in the Eighteenth-
Century British Atlantic World’ (Columbia University, 2005); Mastering Christianity:
Missionary Anglicanism and Slavery in the Atlantic World (Oxford University Press,
2012).

Ted McCormick (Professor, Concordia University), ‘Sir William Petty, Political

Arithmetic, and the Transmutation of the Irish, 1652–1687’ (Columbia University,
2005); William Petty and the Ambitions of Political Arithmetic (Oxford University
Press, 2009): John Ben Snow Prize, North American Conference on British Studies,
2010.

Philip J. Stern (Gilhuly Family Associate Professor, Duke University), ‘“One Body
Corporate and Politick”: The Growth of the English East India Company-State in the
Later Seventeenth Century’ (Columbia University, 2005); The Company-State:
Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in
India (Oxford University Press, 2011): Morris D. Forkosch Prize, American Historical
Association, 2011; Trevor Reese Memorial Prize, Institute of Commonwealth Studies,
2014.
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Luciana Villas Bôas (Associate Professor, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), ‘Travel
Writing and Religious Dissent: Hans Staden’s Warhaftige Historia in Print’ (with Prof.
Dorothea von Mücke; Columbia University, 2005).

James Delbourgo (James Westfall Thompson Distinguished Professor, Rutgers University),

‘Electricity, Experiment and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century North America’
(Columbia University, 2003); A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and
Enlightenment in Early America (Harvard University Press, 2006): Thomas J. Wilson
Prize, Harvard University Press, 2005.

Charles Ludington (Teaching Associate Professor, North Carolina State University),

‘Politics and the Taste for Wine in England and Scotland, 1660–1860’ (with Prof.
David Cannadine; Columbia University, 2003); The Politics of Wine in Britain: A New
Cultural History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).

Nicholas Harding (independent scholar), ‘Dynastic Union in British and Hanoverian

Ideology, 1701–1803’ (with Prof. David Cannadine; Columbia University, 2001);
Hanover and the British Empire, 1700–1837 (Boydell and Brewer, 2007).

Doctoral Committees:

Jacob Hoerger, ‘Historical Injustice and the Politics of Redemption’ (Harvard University,
in progress).

Eda Ozel, ‘Morality of Plunder and Economy of Protection: Ottoman Corsairs in

Mediterranean Trade and Warfare, 1574–1669’ (Harvard University, in progress).

Rephael Stern (Golieb Fellow, New York University School of Law), ‘The Making of a
Postcolony: Legal and Economic Technocracy in Late British Mandate Palestine and
the State of Israel, 1939–1967’ (Harvard University, in progress).

Shuichi Wanibuchi (Assistant Professor, Kyoritsu Women’s University), ‘A Colony by

Design: Nature, Knowledge, and the Transformation of Landscape in the Delaware
Valley, 1680–1760’ (Harvard University, in progress).

Sungik Yang, ‘The Fascist Moment in Korea: The Politics of Korean Nationalism and the
Road to Mass Dictatorship, 1945–1979’ (Harvard University, in progress).

Ruodi Duan (Assistant Professor, Haverford College), ‘Ends of Solidarity: China,

Tanzania, and Black Internationalism, 1960–1972’ (Harvard University, 2022).

Jonas Rüegg (Senior Assistant, University of Zurich), ‘The Kuroshio Frontier: Business,
State, and Environment in the Making of Japan’s Pacific’ (Harvard University, 2022).
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Marcel Garboś (István Deák Visiting Professor, Columbia University), ‘The Clash of
Internationalisms: Promethean Internationalism, the Soviet Nationalities, and Visions
of Eurasian Order in the Twentieth Century’ (Harvard University, 2021).

Kristin Oberiano (Assistant Professor, Wesleyan University), ‘Territorial Discontent:

Chamorros, Filipinos, and the Making of the United States Empire on Guam’ (Harvard
University, 2021).

George Gallwey (Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and
International Law), ‘Public Credit and the Politics of Money: From the British Empire
to the Early American Republic’ (Harvard University, 2020).

Barnaby Crowcroft (Ernest May Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School), ‘The End of the
British Empire of Protectorates, 1945–1960’ (Harvard University, 2019); under
contract, Penguin Books UK.

Afroditi Giovanopoulou (Doctoral student, Columbia University), ‘American Legal

Thought in the World: Sociological Jurisprudence in the History of American Foreign
Policy, 1902–1967’ (SJD, Harvard Law School, 2019).

Mou Banerjee (Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin), ‘Questions of Faith:

Christianity, Conversion and the Ideological Origins of Political Theology in Colonial
India, 1813–1907’ (Harvard University, 2017); under contract, Harvard University
Press.

Elizabeth Cross (Assistant Professor, Georgetown University), ‘The French East India
Company and the Politics of Commerce in the Revolutionary Era’ (Harvard University,
2017); Company Politics: Commerce, Scandal, and French Visions of Indian Empire in
the Revolutionary Era; under contract, Oxford University Press.

Madhav Khosla (Associate Professor, Ashoka University), ‘Modern Constitutionalism and

the Indian Founding’ (Harvard University, 2017); India’s Founding Moment: The
Constitution of a Most Surprising Democracy (Harvard University Press, 2020).

Benjamin D. Weber (Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis), ‘America’s

Carceral Empire: Confinement, Punishment and Work at Home and Abroad, 1865–
1945’ (Harvard University, 2017).

Stuart M. McManus (Assistant Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong), ‘The Global
Lettered City: Humanism and Empire in Colonial Latin America and the Early Modern
World’ (Harvard University, 2016); Empire of Eloquence: The Classical Rhetorical
Tradition in Colonial Latin America and the Iberian World (Cambridge University
Press, 2021).

Caroline Spence (Faculty Assistant, Harvard Business School), ‘Ameliorating Empire:

Slavery and Protection in the British Colonies, 1783–1865’ (Harvard University, 2014).
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†Stephen A. Walsh (Former Christoph-Martin-Wieland Postdoctoral Fellow, Gotha

Research Center, Universität Erfurt), ‘Between the Arctic and the Adriatic: Polar
Exploration, Science and Empire in the Habsburg Monarchy’ (Harvard University,
2014).

John Huffman (Assistant Editor, The Papers of Benjamin Franklin), ‘Americans on Paper:
Identity and Identification in the American Revolution’ (Harvard University, 2013).

Eleanor Hubbard (Former Assistant Professor, Princeton University), ‘City Women: Sex,
Money, and the Social Order in London, 1570–1640’ (Harvard University, 2009); City
Women: Money, Sex, and the Social Order in Early Modern London (Oxford
University Press, 2012).

Sandhya L. Polu (Former Chief Aide, US Embassy, Rome), ‘The Perception of Risk:
Policy-Making on Infectious Disease in India (1892–1940)’ (Harvard University,
2009); Infectious Disease in India, 1892–1940: Policy-Making and the Perception of
Risk (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).

Theodore Christov (Associate Professor, George Washington University), ‘Beyond

International Anarchy: Political Theory and International Relations in Early Modern
Political Thought’ (University of California, Los Angeles, 2008); Before Anarchy:
Hobbes and His Critics in Modern International Thought (Cambridge University Press,
2015).

Alison L. LaCroix (Robert Newton Reid Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law
School), ‘A Well-Constructed Union: An Intellectual History of American Federalism,
1754–1800’ (Harvard University, 2007); The Ideological Origins of American
Federalism (Harvard University Press, 2010).

David Chan Smith (Associate Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University), ‘Violence and the
Law: The Making of Sir Edward Coke’s Jurisprudence, 1578–1616’ (Harvard
University, 2007); Sir Edward Coke and the Reformation of the Laws: Religion,
Politics and Jurisprudence, 1578–1616 (Cambridge University Press, 2014).

Sarah Yeh (Concord Academy), ‘In an Enemy’s Country: British Culture, Identity, and
Allegiance in Ireland and the Caribbean, 1688–1763’ (Brown University, 2006).

Miranda Frances Spieler (Associate Professor, The American University of Paris), ‘Empire
and Underworld: Guiana in the French Legal Imagination, c. 1789 – c. 1870’
(Columbia University, 2005); Empire and Underworld: Captivity in French Guiana
(Harvard University Press, 2011).

Marc H. Lerner (Associate Professor, University of Mississippi), ‘Privileged Communities

or Equal Individuals: The Political Culture of German Freiheit and French Liberté in
the Swiss Public Arena, 1798–1847’ (Columbia University, 2003); A Laboratory of
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Liberty: The Transformation of Political Culture in Republican Switzerland, 1750–

1848 (Brill, 2012).

Nerina Rustomji (Associate Professor, St John’s University), ‘The Garden and the Fire:
Materials of Heaven and Hell in Medieval Islamic Culture’ (Columbia University,
2003); The Garden and the Fire: Heaven and Hell in Islamic Culture (Columbia
University Press, 2009).

Paul Cheney (Professor, University of Chicago), ‘History and the Science of Commerce in
the Century of Enlightenment: France 1713–1789’ (Columbia University, 2002);
Revolutionary Commerce: Globalization and the French Monarchy (Harvard
University Press, 2010).

Farina Mir (Associate Professor, University of Michigan), ‘The Social Space of Language:
Punjabi Popular Narrative in Colonial India, c. 1850–1900’ (Columbia University,
2002); The Social Space of Language: Vernacular Culture in British Colonial Punjab
(University of California Press, 2010).

Shabnum Tejani (Senior Lecturer, SOAS), ‘A Pre-History of Indian Secularism: Categories

of Nationalism and Communalism in Emerging Definitions of India, Bombay
Presidency c. 1893–1932’ (Columbia University, 2002); Indian Secularism: A Social
and Intellectual History, 1890–1950 (Permanent Black, 2007).

Marcus Collins (Senior Lecturer, University of Loughborough), ‘Good Companions:

Personal Relationships Between Men and Women in Twentieth-Century Britain’
(Columbia University, 2000); Modern Love: An Intimate History of Men and Women in
Twentieth-Century Britain (Atlantic, 2003).

Anna Maslakovic (independent scholar), ‘Common and Public: A Genealogy of Urban

Space in Late Medieval and Early Modern Lyon’ (Columbia University, 2000).

Ben Mutschler (Associate Professor, Oregon State University), ‘The Province of Affliction:
Illness in New England, 1690–1820’ (Columbia University, 2000); The Province of
Affliction: Illness and the Making of Early New England (University of Chicago Press,
2020).

Mridu Rai (Professor, Presidency University), ‘The Question of Religion in Kashmir:

Sovereignty, Legitimacy and Rights, c. 1846–1947’ (Columbia University, 2000);
Hindu Rulers, Muslim Subjects: Islam, Rights, and the History of Kashmir (Princeton
University Press, 2004).

Joseph S. Meisel (Joukowsky Family University Librarian, Brown University), ‘Public

Speech and the Culture of Public Life in the Age of Gladstone’ (Columbia University,
1999); Public Speech and the Culture of Public Life in the Age of Gladstone (Columbia
University Press, 2001).
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Jesse M. Lander (Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame), ‘Print, Polemic, and
Popular Forms: Religion and Community in Early Modern England’ (Columbia
University, 1998); Inventing Polemic: Religion, Print, and Literary Culture in Early
Modern England (Cambridge University Press, 2006).

Michael Silvestri (Professor, Clemson University), ‘“The Dirty Work of Empire”: Policing,
Political Violence, and Public Order in Colonial Bengal, 1905–1947’ (Columbia
University, 1998); Policing “Bengali Terrorism” in India and the World: Imperial
Intelligence and Revolutionary Nationalism, 1905–1939 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).

Julia Rudolph (Professor, North Carolina State University), ‘Revolution by Degrees: The
Whig Theory of Resistance’ (Columbia University, 1995); Revolution by Degrees:
James Tyrrell and Whig Political Thought in the Late Seventeenth Century (Palgrave
Macmillan, 2002).

Michael B. Wasser (Lecturer, Dawson College), ‘Violence and the Central Criminal Courts
in Scotland, 1603–1638’ (Columbia University, 1995).

External doctoral examiner: The Australian National University; University of

Cambridge; Columbia University; University of Glasgow; University of Helsinki; King’s
College London; University of London; McMaster University; New York University;
Princeton University; University of St Andrews; University of York.

Other Theses Supervised:

Jasper Schoff, ‘Le Bon Goût Musical: Printers, Paratexts, and Politesse in Early Modern
Paris, 1532–1598’ (with Prof. Alex Rehding; senior thesis, Harvard University, 2022):
Hoopes Prize; Washburn Prize.

Emily Laase, ‘“Peer’s Daughters”: The Mitford Sisters, Public Scandal, and Aristocratic
Female Politics’ (ALM thesis, Harvard Extension School, 2020).

Jessica Dorfmann, ‘Decolonizing Multiculturalism: Teaching Māori History in a “Nation of

Immigrants”’ (senior thesis, Harvard University, 2017).

Benjamin Wilcox, ‘“Is this Science?”: Louis Agassiz and the Thayer Expedition in
Brazilian Thought, 1865–1876’ (senior thesis, Harvard University, 2013): Harris Prize;
Hoopes Prize; Maxwell Prize.

Emma R. Carron, ‘Against the Grain: Evolving Ideas of the Consumer in the Corn Law
Debates, 1813–1846’ (senior thesis, Harvard University, 2012).

Noah M. Silver, ‘Commissioners of Justice? Mixed Commission Courts and the British
Suppression of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1819–1845’ (senior thesis, Harvard
University, 2010): Hoopes Prize; Maxwell Prize.
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William Ferguson, ‘Scottish and Irish Political Thought and the Question of Union, 1688–
1707’ (senior thesis, Harvard University, 2009).

Keith M. McNamara, ‘The Religion of Bernard Mandeville’ (ALM thesis, Harvard

Extension School, 2009).

Andrew Schalkwyk, ‘Hume, Whiggism, and the Scottish Feudal Debate’ (senior thesis,
Harvard University, 2008).

Elizabeth Brodie David, ‘History for a Changed World? Geoffrey Barraclough, the
Campaign for Universal History, and the English Historical Profession in the Mid-
Twentieth Century’ (senior thesis, Harvard University, 2008): Hoopes Prize.

William Deringer, ‘Beyond the Idle Philosopher: William Petty, the Down Survey, and the
Empowerment of Knowledge, 1652–1662’ (senior thesis, Harvard University, 2006):
Harris Prize; Hoopes Prize; Washburn Prize.

Updated July 2022