James Hankins

James Hankins (born 1955) is an American intellectual historian specializing in the Italian Renaissance. He is the general editor of the I Tatti Renaissance Library and the associate editor of the ''Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum''. He was a professor of history at Harvard University. In spring 2018, he was a visiting research fellow at the University of Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture.

In 2012, he was honored with the Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award of the Renaissance Society of America. In December 2025, he announced that he was leaving Harvard University in favor of the Hamilton School of Classical and Civic Education of the University of Florida because he believed Harvard University was no longer committed to teaching the history of Western civilization. Provided by Wikipedia