Past Member
David Hancock
Martin L. and Sarah F. Leibowitz Member
Affiliation
Historical Studies
Field of Study
History of the First British Empire; Business and Economic History of the Early Modern Atlantic World
Website
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While at IAS, David Hancock will be working on a biography of William Fitzmaurice, second Earl of Shelburne and first Marquis of Lansdown (1737–1805), the Irish-born scholar, soldier, politician, aesthete, and office-holder who as prime minister crafted the peace that ended the American revolutionary war.
Dates at IAS
Member
School of Historical Studies
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Spring
Degrees
Harvard University
Ph.D.
1990
Yale University
A.M.
1983
College of William and Mary
A.B.
1980
Appointments
The University of Michigan
1997–2021
Professor of History
Harvard University
1990–1997
Associate Professor of History