James Hankins will be Professor of Humanities at the Hamilton School in the 2026–2027 academic year. A intellectual historian, he is currently a Visiting Professor at the Hamilton School, having taught at Harvard University for the past 40 years. He is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and the winner of the Academy’s Serena Medal for Italian history (2024). He was awarded the Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award by the Renaissance Society of America in 2012. He was a Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, in 2014. His main research interests are the history of Renaissance political thought, the history of Platonic philosophy and history of the classical tradition. He is the founding editor of the I Tatti Renaissance Library (Harvard University Press) and associate editor of the Catalogus Translationum and Commentariorum (Union Académique Internationale). His public-facing essays, reviews and opinion pieces have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Law & Liberty, The New Criterion, The Claremont Review of Books, The Spectator (World), Public Discourse, and The American Mind.