{"id":42,"date":"2015-04-23T13:25:44","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T13:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/?page_id=42"},"modified":"2020-07-24T14:43:56","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T14:43:56","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">\n<p>Queen Mary, University of London has one of the largest concentrations of scholars working in the field of political thought within the United Kingdom, with an almost unparalleled expertise that stretches from the Renaissance to the present day and includes the political thought of America, Britain, France, Germany, Greece, and Italy. The Centre also has considerable strength in the history of legal theory and contemporary political thought. Members of the Centre work principally in the Schools of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.qmul.ac.uk\/\" target=\"0\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">History<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.qmul.ac.uk\/\" target=\"0\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Law<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politics.qmul.ac.uk\/\" target=\"0\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Politics<\/a>. It is an interdisciplinary group which is located within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.<\/p>\n<h2>Structure<\/h2>\n<p>The centre is interdisciplinary and attracts members from across the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Queen Mary. The centre&#8217;s current Co-Directors are Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qmul.ac.uk\/history\/people\/academic-staff\/profiles\/fitzmauriceandrew.html\">Andrew Fitzmaurice<\/a>, Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/people\/#quentin_skinner\">Quentin Skinner<\/a>\u00a0and Professor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/people\/#georgios_varouxakis\">Georgios Varouxakis<\/a>. Dr <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qmul.ac.uk\/history\/people\/academic-staff\/profiles\/jamesleslie.html\">Leslie James<\/a>, Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/people\/#gareth_stedman_jones\">Gareth Stedman Jones<\/a>\u00a0and Dr <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qmul.ac.uk\/history\/people\/academic-staff\/profiles\/yaqoobwaseem.html\">Waseem Yaqoob<\/a> sit on the centre&#8217;s Executive\u00a0Committee, while the Advisory\u00a0Committee is made up of Dr <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politics.qmul.ac.uk\/staff\/droletjeanfrancois.html\">Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Drolet<\/a>, Dr\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/people\/#maurizio_isabella\">Maurizio Isabella<\/a>, Dr <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/people\/#maks_del_mar\">Maksymilian Del Mar<\/a> and Dr <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qmul.ac.uk\/law\/people\/academic-staff\/items\/roele.html\">Isobel Roele<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queen Mary, University of London has one of the largest concentrations of scholars working in the field of political thought within the United Kingdom, with an almost unparalleled expertise that stretches from the Renaissance to the present day and includes the political thought of America, Britain, France, Germany, Greece, and Italy. The Centre also has [&#8230;] <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/about\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-42","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1238,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions\/1238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}