Professor Richard Whatmore FBA

Summary

Richard Whatmore was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and educated in Durham, attending Framwellgate Moor Comprehensive School.

After reading History at Cambridge he was Choate Fellow at Harvard, completed a doctorate at Cambridge under the supervision of István Hont, and taught at the University of Sussex from 1993, where he ultimately became Professor of Intellectual History and the History of Political Thought in 2009.

Moving to St Andrews in 2013 as Professor of Modern History, Whatmore is co-director of the Institute of Intellectual History. He gave the Carlyle Lectures at Oxford in 2019 and has edited the journal History of European Ideas since 2000. Whatmore is subject chair of Arts & Humanities for SCOPUS (Elsevier) and has been collecting the archives of political theorists and intellectual historians since 1999.

Richard is also Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.