Institute of Intellectual History

Founded in 2013, the Institute of Intellectual History is a hub for everyone interested in intellectual history at both the University of St Andrews and beyond.

Support the Institute of Intellectual History

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Thanks to wonderful donations of rich scholarly resources we now have exceptional opportunities to expand our activities and projects

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But we need support in order to realise these opportunities

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Support the Institute of Intellectual History – Thanks to wonderful donations of rich scholarly resources we now have exceptional opportunities to expand our activities and projects – But we need support in order to realise these opportunities –

AT THE INSTITUTE OF INTELLECTUAL
HISTORY WE …

  • Conduct research into every aspect of intellectual history on a global scale from ancient to modern times.

  • Democratise knowledge, link ideas and policy, pursue ideas at the margins and promote sustainability and conservation.

  • Host seminars and conferences with leading scholars in the field.

  • Collect and preserve the papers of intellectual historians and scholars who have made an impact on the study of ideas.

  • Collaborate with partner institutions and scholars everywhere.

  • Edit the journals History of European Ideas and Global Intellectual History.

  • Teach the MLitt in Intellectual History

  • Encourage doctoral-level research in intellectual history.  

  • Award the annual István Hont Book Prize for the best book published in intellectual history.

AND WE MAKE IDEAS AND RESEARCH ACCESSIBLE TO ALL THROUGH …

CO-DIRECTORS

Professor Richard Whatmore
Professor James Harris

ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS

Dr Lasse S. Andersen
Dr Rory Cox
Professor Aileen Fyfe
Dr Cailean Gallagher
Dr Deborah Kent
Professor Colin Kidd
Dr Frances Nethercott

INTERNATIONAL BOARD

Chair: Roger Mason (St Andrews)
Doohwan Ahn (Seoul National University)
Manuela Albertone (Turin)
Antonella Alimento (Pisa)
David Armitage (Harvard)
Michael Bentley (Oxford)
Mark Bevir (Berkeley)
Annabel Brett (Cambridge)
Greg Claeys (Royal Holloway)
Emmanuelle de Champs (Université de Cergy-Pontoise)
George Garnett (Oxford)
Mark Goldie (Cambridge)
Rachel Hammersley (Newcastle)
Béla Kapossy (Lausanne)
Minchul Kim (Sungkyunkwan University/Oxford)
Daniel Klein (GMU)
Michael Lobban (LSE)
John Marshall (Johns Hopkins)
William Miller (Michigan)
Luke O’Sullivan (National University of Singapore)
John Robertson (St Andrews))
Emma Rothschild (Cambridge and Harvard)
Philip Schofield (UCL)
Quentin Skinner (Queen Mary)
Koen Stapelbroek (Helsinki and Rotterdam)
Gareth Stedman-Jones (Queen Mary)
Ann Thomson (Florence)
Zilan Wang (Cambridge)
Brian Young (Oxford)


VISITING FELLOWS

Ojel L. Rodriguez Burgos
Simon J. Cook
Dr Ariane Fichtl (Helsinki and St Andrews)
Dr Rosario Lopez
Dr Peter Madill
Dr Robin Mills
Paul Myles
Jesse Norman
Katrin Redfern
Daniel Rey
Benjamin Thrasher
Xilu Wang