Centre for Intellectual History

What is Intellectual History?

Intellectual history has become a commonplace label within the historical profession. Those who call themselves intellectual historians hail from a variety of backgrounds, are committed to a multitude of philosophical positions, and work on all subjects and across every historical period. This project asks leading scholars to define intellectual history in a series of interviews, and to explain how their sense of intellectual history relates to their current research projects.

The project was produced and edited by SCIH members Dr Sophie Bisset and Dr Andy Mansfield. Please direct all enquiries to s.bisset@sussex.ac.uk or a.k.mansfield@sussex.ac.uk.

Professor Maria Rosa Antognazza

Professor of Philosophy, King's College London

Dr Cesare Cuttica

Lecturer in British History, Université Paris 8

Professor Aaron Garrett

Associate Professor of Philosophy, Boston University

Professor Ian Hunter

Emeritus Professor, Centre for the History of European Discourses, University of Queensland

Dr Tim Hochstrasser

Senior Lecturer in Intellectual History, LSE

Professor Béla Kapossy

Professor of Modern History, University of Lausanne

Professor Colin Kidd

Professor of History, University of St Andrews

Professor William Lamont

Emeritus Professor, University of Sussex

Professor James Moore

Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Concordia University

Professor John Robertson

Professor of the History of Political Thought, University of Cambridge

Professor Mark Salber Phillips

Carleton University, Ottowa

Professor M A Stewart

University of Lancaster

Professor Ann Thomson

Professor of European Intellectual History, European University Institute, Florence

Professor Richard Whatmore

Professor of Intellectual History, University of Sussex

Professor Donald Winch

Emeritus Professor of Intellectual History, University of Sussex

Professor Paul Wood

University of Victoria

Professor Blair Worden

Emeritus Fellow of St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford

Professor Simone Zurbuchen

Professeure ordinaire de philosophie moderne et contemporaine, Université de Lausanne