Education
Hawthorn studied at Jesus College, Oxford (Bachelor) and the London School of Economics and Political Science (Master of Arts).
Hawthorn studied at Jesus College, Oxford (Bachelor) and the London School of Economics and Political Science (Master of Arts).
Hawthorn was a lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex, 1964–1970. In 1970 he began a longstanding academic association with the University of Cambridge: lecturer in Sociology, 1970–1985. Reader in Sociology and Politics, 1985–1998.
Professor of International Politics, 1998–2007.
Fellow, Churchill College, 1970–1976. Fellow, Clare Hall since 1982.
As from 2007 he was an emeritus professor of International Politics and Social and Political Theory at the University of Cambridge.
According to Stefan Collini in Hawthorn"s obituary at the The Guardian: "lieutenant is thanks to him more than to any other individual that Cambridge now boasts a flourishing Department of Politics and International Studies". He was a member of the editorial board of the Cambridge Review of International Affairs.
Visiting Professor of Sociology at Harvard University between 1973 and 1974 and between 1989 and 1990. Visiting member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, New Jersey, 1989–1990.
