He is a Fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Historical Society and the Academia Europea, and a Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Royal Irish Academy, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and the Österreichische Academie der Wissenschaften He is the holder of Honorary degrees from the Universities of Aberdeen, Athens, Chicago, East Anglia, Harvard, Helsinki, Leuven, Oslo, Oxford, Santiago and St Andrews. Professor Skinner’s scholarship is available in 24 languages, and has won him numerous prizes, including the Balzan Prize, the Wolfson Prize, the Bielefelder Wissenschaftspreis, the Sir Isaiah Berlin Prize of the British Political Studies Association, and the Benjamin Lippincott and David Easton Awards of the American Political Science Association. He is currently Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities at Queen Mary, University of London. He has also held visiting appointments in Australia, Belgium, France, Germany and the United States. He began his career at Cambridge, moving to the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton in 1974 and returning to Cambridge first as Professor of Political Science (1979-1996) and thereafter as Regius Professor of History (1996-2008). Quentin Skinner took his degree in History at Gonville and Caius College Cambridge in 1962. On 12 February 2013 Professor Quentin Skinner will deliver a public lecture at the University of York, on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the composition of Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince.

Professor Quentin Skinner to lecture at York

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