John Montfort Dunn (born 9 September 1940) is a emeritus Professor of Political Theory at King's College, Cambridge, and Visiting Professor in the Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Chiba University, Japan.
The son of Colonel Henry George Montfort Dunn and Catherine Mary (née Kinloch), John Dunn was educated at Winchester and Millfield. He read history at King's College, Cambridge. He was briefly (1965-1966) a fellow of Jesus Co...
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John Montfort Dunn (born 9 September 1940) is a emeritus Professor of Political Theory at King's College, Cambridge, and Visiting Professor in the Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Chiba University, Japan.
The son of Colonel Henry George Montfort Dunn and Catherine Mary (née Kinloch), John Dunn was educated at Winchester and Millfield. He read history at King's College, Cambridge. He was briefly (1965-1966) a fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge; was Harkness Fellow at Harvard University ; and since 1966 he has been a fellow of King's College. A lecturer in political science at Cambridge University 1972-77, Dunn became reader in politics 1977-87, and has been professor of political theory since 1987. He has married three times: to Susan Deborah, née Fyvel (1965; divorced 1971); to Judith Frances Bernal (1973; divorced 1987) and to Ruth Scurr (1997).
Dunn's work focuses on applying a historical perspective to modern political theory. His early reputation was based upon...
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