David Armitage (historian)

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David Armitage
Born (1965-02-01) 1 February 1965 (age 58)
Stockport, England
Alma mater St Catharine's College, Cambridge (BA, PhD)
Occupation(s)Historian and academic
Employer(s) Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Columbia University
Harvard University

David Armitage (born 1 February 1965) is a British historian who has written on international and intellectual history. He has been chair of the history department and is Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University.

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Life and career

Armitage was born in Stockport, England and educated at Stockport Grammar School before attending St Catharine's College, 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 was married to Harvard history professor Joyce Chaplin. [5]

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  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 Archived 21 March 2015 at the Wayback Machine . Retrieved 19 June 2014.
  5. Potier, Beth (7 October 2004). "Historian Armitage follows ideas where they take him". Harvard Gazette . Retrieved 19 June 2014.
  6. 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).
  7. 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).
  8. 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).
  9. 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).
  10. Published as an Open Access Book doi : 10.1017/9781139923880