Dr Jon Parkin
Jon Parkin has an MA in Modern History from the University of Oxford (1991) and a PhD in Intellectual History from the University of Cambridge (1995). Jon was the Centenary Research Fellow at Selwyn College, Cambridge (1995-1998) and British Academy Post-doctoral Research Fellow in the History Department at King’s College, London (1998-9). He went on to hold the posts of Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of York (1999-2012), before returning to St Hugh’s as Fellow and Tutor in Modern History in 2012.
Research Interests
- Politics and ideas in the Early Enlightenment
- European natural law theory
- Thomas Hobbes
- Reading and reception of political theory
- Self-censorship
- Latitudinarianism
- Approaches to the History of Political Thought
Featured Publications
Parkin, J., and Stanton T., Natural Law and Toleration in the Early Enlightenment, London, British Academy, 2013.
Taming the Leviathan: The Reception of Thomas Hobbes’s Political and Religious Ideas in England 1640-1700, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Current DPhil Students
Teaching
I would like to hear from potential DPhil students regarding: Early modern intellectual history and the History of Political Thought.
I currently teach:
Prelims |
FHS |
Historiography |
British History IV |
Theories of the State |
British History V |
British History IV |
General History VIII |
British History V |
General History IX |
General History III |
Literature and Politics in Early Modern England |
The Science of Society 1650-1800 |
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The Scientific Movement in the Seventeenth Century |
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Disciplines of History |