David Armitage
David Armitage is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University, where he teaches intellectual history and international history. David was born in Britain and educated at the University of Cambridge and Princeton University. Before moving to Harvard in 2004, he taught for 11 years at Columbia University. 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.
David joined global dis:connect funded by the Munich Centre for Global History.
Project
While attached to global dis:connect, David worked on three major projects. The first is a new global history of treaty-making and treaty-breaking since the 17th century, on which he lectured at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg during his visit. The second is a set of essays on opera and international law, which the offerings of the Bavarian State Opera and a visit to nearby Salzburg greatly enriched. The third was the international conference, Oceans Disconnect that he co-organised with Roland Wenzlhuemer and Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge/gd:c fellow alumnus), in tandem with the Cambridge University Press series on oceanic history that he co-edits with Sujit.
Find out more about the workshop David organized during his fellowship together with Sujit Sivasundaram and Roland Wenzlhuemer.