Richard Bourke (academic)

Richard Bourke
Bourke lecturing in 2016
Born
CitizenshipIrish
Academic background
EducationSt. Kilian's German School
Alma materUniversity College, Dublin (BA)
St Catherine's College, Oxford
King's College, Cambridge (PhD)
Birkbeck College, London (BA)
Academic work
Discipline
InstitutionsKing's College, Cambridge
Queen Mary, University of London
Notable worksRomantic Discourse and Political Modernity
Peace in Ireland: The War of Ideas
Empire and Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke
Hegel's World Revolutions
Websitehttps://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/prof-richard-bourke

Richard Bourke FBA (born 1965) is a UK-based Irish academic specialising in the history of political ideas. His work spans ancient and modern thought,[1] and is associated with the application of the historical method to political theory.[2][3] He is Professor of the History of Political Thought at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.[4] He was formerly Professor of the History of Political Thought and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of the History of Political Thought at Queen Mary, University of London.[5] In July 2018 Bourke was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA).[6]

  1. ^ "Gerald Stourzh Lectures on the History of Human Rights and Democracy » 2017 Richard Bourke". gerald-stourzh-vorlesungen.univie.ac.at.
  2. ^ Womersley, David (July/August 2015). "Reflections On Bourke's Burke". Standpoint.
  3. ^ Bourke, Richard. "The Cambridge School" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 October 2017.
  4. ^ "Professor Richard Bourke, FBA — Faculty of History".
  5. ^ "Professor Richard Bourke - School of History". www.history.qmul.ac.uk.
  6. ^ "Record number of academics elected to British Academy | British Academy". British Academy. Retrieved 22 July 2018.