Quentin Robert Duthie Skinner is an intellectual historian. Regarded as one of the founders of the Cambridge School of the history of political thought, between 1996 and 2008 he was Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge; he is currently the Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities and Co-director of The Centre for the Study of the History of Political Thought at Queen Mary University of LondonSkinner is regarded as one of the founders of the 'Cambridge School' of the history of political thought. His historical work has mainly focused on political thinking in early-modern Europe. He is also a Fellow of the British Academy, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Academia Europaea. He was awarded the Wolfson History Prize (1979) and a Balzan Prize (2006).
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