David Armitage is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History, Chair of the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies and former Chair of the Department of History at Harvard University, where he teaches intellectual history and international history. He is currently a Senior Scholar of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, an Affiliated Faculty Member at Harvard Law School, an Affiliated Professor in the Harvard Department of Government, an Honorary Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, an Honorary Professor of History at Queen's University Belfast, and an Honorary Professor of History at the University of Sydney.
Born in Britain and educated at the University of Cambridge and Princeton University, he taught for eleven years at Columbia University before moving to Harvard in 2004. A prize-winning teacher and writer, he has lectured on six continents and has held research fellowships and visiting positions in Australia, Britain, China, France, Germany, South Korea and the United States.
He is the author or editor of nineteen books, and his articles and essays have appeared in journals, newspapers and collections around the world. His works have been translated into sixteen languages. He is a Corresponding Member of the Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid; an International Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society; an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities; and a Foreign Member of the Academia Europaea.
David lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Canonbury, London.