JCD Clark

JONATHAN CLARK is Emeritus Joyce C. and Elizabeth Ann Hall Distinguished Professor of British History at the University of Kansas. An expert on English History in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries, Professor Clark has been highly influential in shaping the way in which historians categorise the chronology of ‘the long-eighteenth century’ (a concept he devised) and has explored the commonalties and conflicts in its politics, religion and political thought. He has written or contributed to numerous publications including Thomas Paine: Britain, America, and France in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2018); A World by Itself: A History of the British Isles (Heinemann, 2010); and Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion, and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism (Cambridge University Press, 1994). His next book will be The Enlightenment: A History. Professor Clark holds an MA and a PhD from Downing College, University of Cambridge. He has previously been a Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford and Peterhouse, University of Cambridge.