- Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College (from 2006 to 2019)
- Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy, All Souls College (from 1996 to 2006)
- Fellow in Philosophy, Robinson College, and University Lecturer in Classics (1978-84) and then Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy (1984-96), Cambridge University (from 1978 to 1996)
- Assistant Lecturer, then Lecturer, in Philosophy, University College London (from 1964 to 1978)
- Graduate studies in Philosophy, University College London (from 1963 to 1964)
- Undergraduate, King’s College, Cambridge, studying Classics for Part I of the Tripos, Philosophy for Part II (from 1959 to 1963)
- During National Service in the Royal Navy, qualified as Russian Interpreter (Civil Service Commission, 2nd Class), finishing as Sub-Lieutenant, Royal Naval Reserve (from 1957 to 1959)
- History of ancient and modern philosophy
- Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy, 1976-1996, 2 vols. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).
- Aristotle’s Divine Intellect (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2008).
- A Map of Metaphysics Zeta (Pittsburgh: Mathesis Publications, 2001).
- (co-author with Michael Frede), The Original Sceptics: A Controversy (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1997).
- The Theaetetus of Plato (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1990).
- (ed) The Skeptical Tradition (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983).
- (co-editor), Philosophy As It Is (London: Allen Lane, 1979).
- Honorary Degree in Philosophy, St Andrews University (2012)
- Continuing to serve in the Royal Naval Reserve as Lieutenant (Sp) 1962, Lieutenant-Commander 1970; Retired 1974 (from 1959 to 1974)
- Professor of Classics and History, University of California at Berkeley (from 1978 to 1986)
- Professor of History, Royal Holloway College, University of London (from 1975 to 1978)
- Reader, University of Oxford (from 1973 to 1975)
- Lecturer in Medieval History, Merton College, Oxford (from 1970 to 1975)
- Special Lecturer in Late Roman and Early Byzantine History (from 1970 to 1973)
- Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1970 to 1975)
- Junior Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1963 to 1969)
- Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1956 to 1963)
- Undergraduate, New College, Oxford (from 1953 to 1956)
- Rise of Christianity and the transition from the ancient to the early medieval world
- Currently working on the problems of wealth, poverty and the shift from an ancient to a medieval view of society in the late antique and early medieval periods
- Body and Society (New York, 1988: reprint with Introduction 2008)
- The Rise of Western Christendom: 200-1000 A.D. (Oxford 1996; 2nd revd edn, 2003)
- Poverty and Leadership in the Later Roman Empire (Hanover, New Hampshire, 2002)
Augustine of Hippo (London 1967, new edn. With epilogue, 2000)
- Augustine of Hippo (London 1967, new edn. With epilogue, 2000)
- Authority and the Sacred (Cambridge, 1995)
- Power and Persuasion (Madison, Wisc. 1992)
- Religion and Society in the Age of Saint Augustine (London, 1972, 2nd edn., New York, 1989)
- Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity (Berkeley, 1982)
- The Cult of the Saints (Chicago, 1981)
- The Making of Late Antiquity (Harvard, 1978)
- The World of Late Antiquity (London, 1972)
- Link to Publications
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- History of late antiquity, Byzantium, and the Early Middle Ages, such as ‘Understanding the Dark Ages’ and ‘Saints and Sinners in Early Byzantium’
- Kluge Prize (2008).
- President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching (2006).
- Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College (from 1998 to 2011)
- Bursar, All Souls College (from 1990 to 1998)
- Bursar, St Antony’s College, Oxford (to 1990)
- Treasurer, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1998)
- Fellow, All Souls College (from 1987 to 1998)
- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1962)
- Prize Fellow, All Souls College. (from 1959 to 1962)
- Master, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (from 1994 to 2000)
- Professor of Economic History, University of Cambridge (from 1994 to 1997)
- Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1988 to 1994)
- Co-Director, Cambridge Group for History of Population Social Structure, Cambridge (from 1974 to 1994)
- Professor of Population Studies, London School of Economics (from 1979 to 1988)
- Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge (from 1958 to 1974)
- Undergraduate and Postgraduate, Peterhouse, Cambridge (from 1949 to 1958)
- Economic and demographic history in England in the period between the reigns of Elizabeth and Victoria
- Reconstruction of the history of the changing occupational structure of England in the period c.1750-c.1850
- Poverty, Progress and Population (CUP, 2004)
- (jointly) English Population History from Family Reconstitution (CUP, 1997)
- (ed. with R. A. Church) The Industrial Revolutions (Blackwell Publishers, 1994)
- Continuity, Chance and Change (CUP, 1988)
- People, Cities and Wealth: The Transformation of Traditional Society (Basil Blackwell, 1987)
- (edited jointly) The Works of Thomas Robert Malthus (Pickering, 1986)
- Publications (PDF)
- President, British Society for Population Studies (from 1977 to 1979)
- President, Economic History Society (from 1995 to 1998)
- Chairman, Population Investigation Committee (from 1984 to 1990)
- Treasurer, British Academy (from 1989 to 1995)
- Chairman, Newton Trust (from 2000 to 2007)
- Editor, Economic History Review (from 1989 to 1992)
- Member, American Philosophical Society (2001)
- Honorary Foreign Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2001)
- Leverhulme Medal, British Academy (2005).
- Founder's Medal, Royal Geographical Society (1997).
- IUSSP Laureate (1993).
- Columnist and Washington Bureau Chief, The Economist (from 1995)
- Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 1988 to 1995)
- Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1980 to 1987)
- Undergraduate, Balliol College, Oxford (from 1977 to 1980)
- Modern America, meritocracy, talent wars, God
- Surveys on entrepreneurship, talent, telecommunications, education, multinational companies, management consultancy and American foreign policy
- (with John Micklethwait) God is Back: How the Global Revival of Faith is Changing the World (Penguin, 2009)
- (with John Micklethwait), The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea (Modern Library, 2005)
- (with John Micklethwait) The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America (Penguin, 2004)
- (with John Micklethwait) A Future Perfect: The Promise and Peril of Globalization (Heinemann, 2000)
- The Witch Doctors: Making Sense of the Management Gurus (Time Books, 1996)
- Measuring the Mind: Education and Psychology in England 1880–1990 (CUP, 1994)
- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1996)
- Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1989 to 1996)
- Undergraduate, New College, Oxford (from 1986 to 1989)
- Internet communications and technology
- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1981)
- Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, University of Oxford and Fellow, All Souls College (from 1976 to 1981)
- Assistant Professor then Professor of Political Science, McGill University (from 1961 to 1998)
- Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1956 to 1961)
- Undergraduate and Postgraduate, Balliol College, Oxford (from 1952 to 1956)
- Undergraduate, McGill University (from 1949 to 1952)
- A Secular Age (Harvard University Press, 2007)
- Modern Social Imaginaries (Duke University Press, 2004)
- Varieties of Religion Today: William James Revisited (Harvard University Press, 2002)
- Philosophical Arguments (Harvard University Press, 1995)
- The Ethics of Authenticity (Harvard University Press, 1992)
- Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity (CUP, 1989)
- Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1986)
- University Professor, Columbia University
- Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, World Bank (from 1997 to 2000)
- Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers (Member of Cabinet) (from 1995 to 1997)
- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1979)
- Drummond Professor of Political Economy, University of Oxford and Fellow, All Souls College (from 1976 to 1979)
- Visiting Fellow, St Catherine's College, Oxford University (from 1973 to 1974)
- Nobel Prize in Economics (2001)
- John Bates Clark Award, American Economic Association (1979)
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