Duncan Kelly is Professor of Politics in the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge.
After a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Sheffield (2000-2003), Duncan Kelly took up a lectureship in politics at Sheffield until 2007. He then moved to what is now the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge, becoming a full Professor of Political Thought and Intellectual History in 2018, and then Professor of Politics in 2025. As well as writing on a wide range of topics in modern political thought and intellectual history for academic and general audiences, Kelly has edited the journal
Modern Intellectual History since 2010.