# James Hankins Professor of History ![James Hankins](/sites/g/files/omnuum9471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/hankins_1.jpg?itok=PQHNRrzc) email laptop\_windows [University Website](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/james-hankins) - Region(s): Europe - Time Period(s): 15th century; 16th century - Theme(s): intellectual history; the classical tradition; history of philosophy; history of political thought Renaissance intellectual history. Main research interests are the history of Renaissance political thought, history of philosophy, and history of the classical tradition. Founder and General Editor of the I Tatti Renaissance Library (Harvard University Press) and Associate Editor of the Catalogus Translationum and Commentariorum (Union Academique Internationale). Currently finishing a monograph entitled, *The Virtue Politics of the Italian Humanists*. - ## People: Department Search [History](/people-department-search/history) - ## People: Filtered Search [Faculty](/people-filtered-search/faculty) - ## People: Theme Search [Intellectual History](/people-focus-search/intellectual-history) [Renaissance](/people-theme-search/renaissance) - ## People: Region Search [Europe](/people-region-search/europe) [Italy](/people-region-search/italy) - ## People: Time Period Search [15th Century](/people-time-period-search/15th-century) [16th Century](/people-time-period-search/16th-century)