Quentin Skinner

Quentin Skinner FBA
Professor Quentin Skinner by David Cobley (2011)
Born	Quentin Robert Duthie Skinner (1940-11-26) 26 November 1940 (age 83) Oldham, England
Spouses	Patricia Law Skinner (div.) Susan James ​ (m. 1979)​
Awards	Wolfson History Prize (1979) Balzan Prize (2006) Bielefeld Science Award [de] (2008)
Academic background
Alma mater	Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Influences	R. G. Collingwood Peter Laslett J. G. A. Pocock Bertrand Russell Keith Thomas Ludwig Wittgenstein J. L.  Austin John Dunn Philip Pettit Michel Foucault
Academic work
Discipline	History Philosophy political science
School or tradition	Cambridge School
Institutions	Christ's College, Cambridge Institute for Advanced Study Queen Mary University of London
Doctoral students	David Armitage Mark Goldie Karen Kupperman Eric M. Nelson James Tully Peter N.  Miller Richard Tuck Richard Bellamy
Main interests	Early modern history intellectual history political philosophy history of political thought Reformation Renaissance Enlightenment rhetoric
Notable works	The Foundations of Modern Political Thought (1978) Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes (1996)
Notable ideas	Cambridge School (intellectual history)
Influenced	J. G. A. Pocock Peter Laslett John Dunn David Runciman Raymond Geuss David Armitage Mark Goldie Karen Kupperman Eric M. Nelson Philip Pettit James Tully

Quentin Robert Duthie Skinner FBA (born 26 November 1940) is a British intellectual historian. He is regarded as one of the founders of the Cambridge School of the history of political thought. He has won numerous prizes for his work, including the Wolfson History Prize in 1979 and the Balzan Prize in 2006. Between 1996 and 2008 he was Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge. He is the Emeritus Professor of the Humanities and Co-director of The Centre for the Study of the History of Political Thought at Queen Mary University of London.^[1][2]