Sir Noel Malcolm

Sir Noel Malcolm is Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He studied history at Cambridge University, where he completed his doctorate and later served for seven years as a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College. He has also been a Visiting Lecturer at Harvard University and a Visiting Fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford, and is an Honorary Fellow of Peterhouse, Gonville and Caius College, and Trinity College, Cambridge.

Before returning to academic life, Malcolm served as Foreign Editor of The Spectator and as a political columnist for London’s Daily Telegraph. His scholarship focuses on British and European early modern intellectual history, with particular interests in Thomas Hobbes, political philosophy, the Ottoman and Islamic world, and the history of the Balkans and Albanian lands.

Among his many distinctions, Malcolm delivered the Trevelyan Lectures at Cambridge in 2010 and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2014 for services to scholarship, journalism, and European history. He is also one of the General Editors of the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Hobbes.

Malcolm is the author of numerous influential works, including Kosovo: A Short History, widely regarded as a landmark study of the region, Agents of Empire, a history of a Venetian-Albanian family in the eastern Mediterranean, and Rebels, Believers, Survivors: Studies in the History of the Albanians.