Faculty of History
Dr Jon Parkin
Associate Professor of History
St Hugh's College
01865 (2)74976jon.parkin@st-hughs.ox.ac.uk 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