Richard Bellamy - Curriculum Vitae#
1. Career
I Education and General Academic Record
- 1976 - 1979 Trinity Hall, Cambridge
- History BA Hons 'First'
- Charles Crawley Prizeman
- College Scholarship
- History BA Hons 'First'
- 1979 - 1983 Graduate Student, Trinity Hall, Cambridge
- 1980 - 1982 Researcher, Social and Political Science Department, European University Institute (EUI), Florence, Italy.
- 1982 - 1983 Leverhulme Study Abroad Studentship, Italy.
- 1983 Cambridge PhD awarded in History for thesis on "Liberalism and Historicism History and Politics in the Thought of Benedetto Croce" (October 1983)
[Supervisor: Prof Quentin Skinner, Examiners: Dr Jonathan Steinberg (Cambridge) and Prof Maurice Cranston (LSE/EUI)]
II Academic Appointments
- 1981-82 Lettore, Dipartimento di Filologia, Letteratura e Linguistica, Pisa University, Italy.
- 1983-86 E.S.R.C. Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford (Junior Dean, 1985 6)
- 1984-86 Lecturer in the House of Politics, Christ Church, Oxford.
- 1986-8 Fellow and College Lecturer in History, Jesus College, Cambridge and Lector, Trinity College, Cambridge.
- 1988-92 University Lecturer in Politics, University of Edinburgh.
- 1992-96 Professor of Politics, University of East Anglia.
- 1996-2002 Professor of Politics and International Relations, University of Reading. (Head of Department 1996-2000, Director Graduate School of European and International Studies 1999-2001)
- 2002-05 Professor of Government, University of Essex
- 2005 - Professor of Political Science, University College, London (UCL). (Director of the School of Public Policy and founding Head of Political Science Department, 2005-10, founding Director of the European Institute 2010-13), Extended leave 2014-2019, 2022-23
- 2014-2019 Professor and Director of the Max Weber Programme, European University Institute (EUI), Florence, Italy (on leave from UCL)
III Visiting Appointments
- March 1993 British Council sponsored visitor, Department of Public and Social Administration, City Polytechnic Hong Kong *Oct - Jan 1995 Visiting Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford
- Sept 2000 - July 2001 Jean Monnet Fellow, Social and Political Science Department, European University Institute (EUI), Florence
- Feb - April 2005 Visiting Fellow, National Europe Centre, ANU, Canberra
- March - June 2010 Visiting Fellow, Centre for Advanced Study (CAS), University of Oslo
- August - Jan 2012 Visiting Professor, University of Exeter
- July 2014 - June 2017, July 2017 - June 2020, September 2013 Fellow, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (HWK), Delmenhorst
- Jan - April 2014 Part-time Professor, European University Institute (EUI), Florence
- May - August 2019 Part-time Professor, European University Institute (EUI), Florence
- February 2022 - July 2023 Visiting Professor of Ethics and Public Policy, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin
- August 2023 - present Senior Fellow, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin
IV Other Positions
- 2002 - 2006 Academic Director, European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR)
- 2008 - 2014 Founding Chair, Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought
V Editorial
He has been the Chief editor of the Critical Review of International and Social Political Philosophy (CRISPP) since 2005 (and continues to exercise this role)
He is on the editorial boards of: the British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Modern Italy, Res Publica: A Journal of Legal and Social Philosophy, Jus Cogens: A Critical Journal of Philosophy of Law and Politics, The European Legacy: Towards New Paradigms, Diacritica: Philosophy, the Journal of Institutional Studies/ Revista Estudos Institucionais and Global Constitutionalism: Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law and on the International Advisory Boards of: the European Journal of Political Theory, Jura Gentium: Rivista di filosofia del diritto internazionale e della politica global, Iris: European Journal of Philosophy and Public Debate, Serendipities - Journal for the Sociology and History of the Social Sciences, Symposium: Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences, and Quaderni di scienza politica.
He was on the boards of: the Journal of Modern Italian Studies from1998-2003, European Political Science from 2001-10, Modern Intellectual History from 2004-07, and Government and Opposition from 2008-17.
He was an associate editor of: the European Journal of Political Theory from 2002-2014, and of the ECPR journal European Political Science Review (EPSR) from 2008-2014.
2. Publications
Richard Bellamy has published 11 monographs, edited 26 books or special issues, edited trans. of 4 classic Italian texts, published 60 refereed journal articles, 41 short/review articles, 86 book chapters, and 22 reference book entries. He has a new monograph (Defending the Political Constitution) forthcoming from OUP, and an edited book (with Jeff King (ed), The Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory) in press with CUP, and is the lead editor of the CUP Cambridge Dictionary of Political Thought.
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