David Armitage is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University, where he teaches international history and intellectual history.  He is also an Affiliated Professor in the Harvard Department of Government, an Affiliated Faculty Member at Harvard Law School, an Honorary Professor of History at the University of Sydney, and an Honorary Professor of History at Queen's University Belfast.  A prize-winning teacher and writer, he has lectured on six continents and has held research fellowships and visiting positions in Australia, Britain, France, Germany, Korea, and the United States. He is the author or editor of seventeen books, among them Civil Wars: A History in Ideas (2017), The History Manifesto (co-author, 2014), Foundations of Modern International Thought (2013),  The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (2000), Oceanic Histories (co-editor, 2018), The Law of Nations in Global History (co-editor, 2017), Pacific Histories: Ocean, Land, People (co-editor, 2014), and The Age of Revolutions in Global Context (co-editor, 2010).  He is a Corresponding Fellow of the Real Academia de la Historia in Madrid, of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.