James Hankins will be Professor of Humanities at the Hamilton School in the 2026–2027 academic year. An American intellectual historian, he is currently a Visiting Professor at the Hamilton School, having taught at Harvard University for the past 40 years. He is also a Fellow of the British Academy. His main research interests are the history of Renaissance political thought, history of philosophy and history of the classical tradition. He is the 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).
Selected Publications
The Humanism of Leonardo Bruni, 1987 (ed. and tr.), with Gordan Griffiths
Supplementum Festivum: Studies in Honor of Paul Oskar Kristeller, 1987 (ed.), with John Monfasani and Frederick Purnell
Plato in the Italian Renaissance, 2 vols., 1990
Repertorium Brunianum: A Critical Guide to the Writings of Leonardo Bruni, vol. 1, 1997
Renaissance Civic Humanism: Reappraisals and Reflections, 2000 (ed.)
The Lost Continent: Neo-Latin Literature and the Birth of European Vernacular Literatures, 2001 (ed.)
Marsilio Ficino: Platonic Theology, 6 vols., 2001-6 (ed.)
Leonardo Bruni: History of the Florentine People, 3 vols. 2001-7 (ed. and tr.)
Humanism and Platonism in the Italian Renaissance, 2 vols., 2003-4
Maffeo Vegio: Short Epics, 2004 (ed.), with Michael C. J. Putnam
The Rebirth of Platonic Theology, ed. James Hankins and Fabrizio Meroi (Florence: Olschki, 2013)
