Education
Claeys gained his Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge.
Claeys gained his Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge.
From 1981 to 1987 he taught British and American studies at Universität Hannover (since then renamed "Leibniz University") in Hanover, Germany. Then he worked as Associate Professor of History at Washington University in Saint Louis. From the beginning of his career his research interests have focused chiefly upon the theory and practice of sociability.
Since 1992 he has been Professor at Royal Holloway, University of London, where his interests are the history of radicalism and socialism in 19th century Britain, utopianism 1700-2001, Social Darwinism and Eugenics and British intellectual history c. 1750 to the present.
