David Armitage

David Armitage is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History and the former Chair of the Department of History at Harvard University, where he teaches international history and intellectual history. He is also an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Government at Harvard and at Harvard Law School, as well as an Honorary Fellow of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. David is a prize-winning teacher and writer and he has lectured on six continents. His articles and essays have appeared in publications around the world, including the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, and the Sydney Morning Herald, and they have been translated into over a dozen languages. The most recent of his seventeen books is Civil Wars: A History in Ideas (2017).

David is a frequent visitor to the Pacific region and for more than a decade he has been an Honorary Professor of History at the University of Sydney. He has a long-standing history in the history of oceans and among his books are Oceanic Histories (co-ed., 2018), Pacific Histories: Ocean, Land, People (co-ed., 2014) and The British Atlantic World, 1500-1800 (co.ed., 2009).