Stuart M. McManus is a scholar of Renaissance law and letters in global context. He also has interests in the history of classical scholarship, Chinese humanities and the application of digital tools to historical research, in particular the nascent field of Cross-Cultural Analytics.
He received his Ph.D. in history (secondary field in classical philology) from Harvard University, where he also studied civil law at Harvard Law School. Prior to coming to CUHK, he taught Mexican and ancient Mediterranean legal history for two years at the University of Chicago, where he was the inaugural postdoctoral fellow at the Institute on the Formation of Knowledge. His book, entitled Empire of Eloquence, on the global history of renaissance humanism (based on primary research in 13 countries in Latin America, Europe and Asia) was published Cambridge University Press in 2021, and he is completing a second book on the global legal background of the famous 1619 slave voyage to Virginia. In 2019, Professor McManus was on leave at Princeton University’s Davis Center for Historical Studies as part of the Center’s “Law & Legalities” theme, and in 2021 he was a visiting fellow of Exeter College, Oxford.
In addition, he is the author of numerous articles and book chapters that have appeared in the American Historical Review, Hispanic American Historical Review, William & Mary Quarterly, Gender & History, Latino Studies, Catholic Historical Review, Colonial Latin American Review, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology and other similar venues. He has also served as a reader for the American Historical Review and other journals and presses.
He is a recipient of Royal Historical Society’s David Berry Prize and the Dan David Prize (the largest historical prize in the world).
He has received grants and fellowships from the RGC (both ECS and GRF), Social Sciences Research Council (USA), the Mellon Foundation-CLIR (USA), the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK), the Huntington Library (USA), the Lilly Library (USA), the John Carter Brown Library (USA), Humboldt Yale History Network and the Warburg Institute (UK).
