Anthony Robin Dermer Pagden is an author and professor of political science and history at the University of California, Los Angeles.
From 1967 to 1969 he worked as an assistant editor at the Trianon Press (Paris), and as a free-lance translator.
Admitted in 1969 to Oriel College, Oxford to read Persian and Arabic, he changed the following year to History and Spanish.
In 1997 he succeeded J. G. A. Pocock as the Harry C. Black Professor in History at the Johns Hopkins University.
He is currently distinguished professor in the Departments of Political Science and History at the University of California Los Angeles.