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
- 2022 Emeritus Professor of the Humanities and Co-director of The Centre for the Study of the History of Political Thought at Queen Mary University of London
- 2008 - 2022 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
- 1979 Wolfson History Prize
- 1981 Fellow of the British Academy
- 1986 Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1997 Member, American Philosophical Society
- 1999 Member, Royal Irish Academy
- 2001 Benjamin Lippincott Award
- 2001 Pilkington Teaching Prize of the University of Cambridge
- 2006 Balzan Prize
- 2006 Sir Isaiah Berlin Prize of the British Political Studies Association
- 2007 David Easton Award of the American Political Science Association
- 2007 Member, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- 2008 Honorary Fellow, Christ‟s College Cambridge
- 2008 Bielefeld Science Award
- 2009 Member, Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 2015 Member, Royal Danish Academy
- Honorary degrees from University of Aberdeen, University of Athens, University of Chicago, University of Copenhagen, University of East Anglia, Harvard University, University of Helsinki, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, University of Kent, University of Oslo, University of Oxford, Adolfo Ibáñez University (Santiago), University of St Andrews and Uppsala University
