Quentin Skinner#
| Membership Number: | 643 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | SOCIAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL THOUGHT |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.history.qmul.ac.uk/staff/skinnerq.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2008 Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities, Queen Mary, University of London
- 1996 - 2008 Regius Professor of Modern History, University of Cambridge
- 1979 - 1996 Professor of Political Science, University of Cambridge
- 1974 - 1979 The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton:
- 1974 - 1975 Member, School of Historical Studies
- 1976 - 1979 Longer-term Member, School of Social Science
- 1967 - 1974 Lecturer in History, University of Cambridge
- 1965 - 1967 Assistant Lecturer in History, University of Cambridge
Fields of Scholarship
- Rhetorical culture of the Renaissance
- Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes
- Nature of interpretation and historical explanation
- Concept of political liberty and the character of the State
Honours and Awards
- 1981 Fellow of the British Academy
- 1986 Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1989 Fellow of the Academia Europaea
- 1997 Doctor of Philosophy, Honoris causa, The University of Helsinki
- 2001 Pilkington Teaching Prize of the University of Cambridge
- 2006 Balzan Prize
- 2008 Honorary Fellow, Christ‟s College Cambridge
- 2009 Miembro Académico Honorario, Universidad Adolfo Ibáňez, Santiago
