I am a political theorist and historian of modern political thought, with interests in Nietzsche's politics, democratic theory, liberalism, conspiracy theories and the far right. My book Nietzsche's Great Politics came out with Princeton University Press in 2016 (paperback 2018). It was reviewed in the New Yorker, TLS, New Statesman, Dissent, LARB, Times Higher Education and Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. It also featured in interviews with Vox and the Irish Times. It was selected as one of CHOICE's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2017, longlisted for the Bronislaw Geremek First Academic Book Prize and is currently being translated into Chinese (Commercial Press).
My current research is on elite theories of democracy - Mosca, Pareto and Michels - and the impact their thinking had on the development of democratic theory in the US and Europe after WWII, notably on figures such as Joseph Schumpeter, Robert Dahl, C Wright Mills and Raymond Aron. I have a book entitled Elites and Democracy under contract with Princeton University Press.
I am currently an AHRC Fellow with "To Have and to Hold", a project about forced marriage and modern slavery. She leads the work on forced marriage in the Rights Lab, a University of Nottingham Beacon Research of Excellence (I am part of the Law and Policy Programme).
I am also the Principal Investigator on a project funded by the AHRC GCRF Network+ Anti-Slavery Knowledge Network (at the University of Liverpool), in collaboration with Against Human Trafficking Kenya and World Reader.
In October 2020 I won a UKRI-funded ESRC Covid-19 Rapid-Response grant looking at the impact of Covid-19 and Covid-related decision-making on people already experiencing, or vulnerable to, forced marriage in the UK.
My previous research was in the political philosophy of John Stuart Mill, especially his connections to pre-Marxist socialism.
I started at Nottingham in 2010. As an historian of political thought, my research is concerned with the intellectual history of the modern European state and the sense that writers have tried to make of the state by appealing to different analogies, such as ‘the self’ or God. He is the author of two monographs on this broad subject: The Moral Person of the State: Pufendorf, Sovereignty and Composite Polities (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and Self and City in the Thought of Saint Augustine (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).
My main research interests are in environmental political theory and political ideologies. I am currently on a Leverhulme Research Fellowship looking at the ideologies of Riders’ Rights Organisations, and at how they look to mobilise their constituency to become politically active. My second current strand of work is on public attitudes to carbon capture and storage, working with citizen focus groups, which is part of a Europe-wide research project involving sites in the UK, Spain, Italy, and The Netherlands.
I joined the Department of History at Nottingham in 2011, after teaching at Cambridge and Manchester, and holding visiting appointments in the United States, Germany, Spain and Australia. My work explores the relationship between political ideologies and cultural forms and practices, focusing on the role of visual and material culture in 'identity politics' in modern European history.
Recent publications include Photography, Migration, and Identity: A German-Jewish-American Story (with Scott Sulzener, Palgrave, 2018); Authenticity: The Cultural History of a Political Concept (with Mathew Humphrey, Palgrave 2018); Heimat, Region, and Empire: Spatial Identities in National Socialist Germany (with Chris Szejnmann, Palgrave 2012); and German Cities and Bourgeois Modernism, 1890-1930 (OUP, 2009). I am currently writing on the role of ideology and subjectivity in private photography in the Third Reich.
I have been lecturing in political theory at Nottingham since 2000. My interests relate mainly to questions about religion: the place of religion in politics, public life, education and schooling, and the choices individuals make. My work spans normative political theory (of the Rawlsian analytical tradition) and rational choice theory. I have written and published on religious markets and individual religious choices, social justice, the ethics of information technology, and educational justice. I am now working on a book about moral and religious education in schools.
I came to Nottingham in 2002. I have recently completed a book on utilitarianism (Taking Utilitarianism Seriously, Oxford University Press, 2019), and I am currently working on utilitarianism and moral and political virtues
Professor Freeden was for many years Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford. Following his retirement, he was appointed as an Honorary Professor in our School in 2012. In 2013 he was appointed as Professor of Political Theory in our University, and served in this post for three years, during which time he co-founded the Centre for the Study of Political Ideologies.
Professor Freeden is widely regarded as the foremost scholar of political ideology in the world. He remains research active, currently working on two contracted books. He brought tremendous vision and energy to the School during his tenure, as well as acting as a wonderful mentor to younger colleagues and PhD students.
Professor Freeden was the founding editor of the Journal of Political Ideologies, which he took from inception to one of the top-ranked political theory journals over 25 years. JPI is now edited here at Nottingham.
Professor Freeden has returned to CRISPI as its founding Honorary Professor.
I received my PhD in History from Emory University in 2001, and I am currently a Lecturer in the History Department. I specialise in the history of modern Britain and the British Empire, with a particular focus on law and race in the late-19th and early-20th century.
My first book, Race, Law, and 'the Chinese Puzzle' in Imperial Britain, was published in 2009. I am a former Fulbright research fellow at King’s College London and my articles have appeared in the Journal of Social History, Comparative Studies in Society and History, the Journal of British Studies, the Journal of Policy History, and The Historian.
I work on Russian and East European history and historical geography. Previous work includes books on Stalinism in a Russian region, Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War, and East European population displacements following the First and Second World Wars. My current research project considers the cultural and political history of Soviet cartography under Lenin and Stalin.
I have been a lecturer in Modern British History since September 2013. My research engages with the intellectual history of post-war Britain. It devotes particular attention to the dynamics of ideological competition and the way in which political parties and other institutions have modified their ideologies in response to changing environmental conditions.
My recent publications have explored British social democracy in the 1980s and the character of ideological competition that took place in the 1970s.
I have a long-standing interest in the Aristotelian tradition, particularly Aristotle's conception of natural law and its impact on later philosophy and political thought, especially on the ideas of Hegel and Marx. I also have an interest in utopian political thought and literature. I am currently writing a book about the politics of recognition in the history of political thought, before and after Hegel.
I am a historian of Anglo-Zionist relations with an interest in ethnonationalism, mythmaking, and cultural media. My research explores the representation of early modern Zionism and pre-1948 Palestine within British media - from newspapers to art, travel writing to cartography.
I am especially interested in the use of agriculture and food in the formation of national identity. My current research project examines the divergent identities and politics of Jewish artists commissioned by the Zionist Organisation in the 1920s.
I am a political theorist and historian of political thought. My first book Leviathan on a Leash: A Theory of State Responsibility (Princeton, 2020), was about issues of collective responsibility in international politics: treaties, sovereign debts, reparations, and economic sanctions.
I am currently working on a new book Revenge of the Luddites: The Unabomber and the Rise of Anti-Tech Radicalism. I also have research interests in radical environmentalism, ecofascism, and green anarchism.
I’m an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham and Honorary Director of the Aristotelian Society.
For the 2021-22 academic year, I am a Faculty Fellow at the Murphy Institute in New Orleans.
I work in epistemology and political philosophy. I have published on topics such as: the role of truth in politics, political empathy, identity-expressive discourse, skepticism, fallibilism, and the value of knowledge.
My research interests cover Habermasian political thought, post-structuralism, the work of Oakeshott, and republican political theory. I am currently writing a book critiquing the rational self-interested subject of liberal political discourse, provisionally entitled: Agency: The Subject of Politics.
I am a political theorist and historian of political thought, with interests in constitutionalism, collective identity and democratic agency. I have published work on Thomas Hobbes and Hannah Arendt, and I am currently preparing a book on the concept of constituent power.
I am a social theorist and political researcher, working primarily within the fields of political thought and the history of ideas. My primary research focus is on the study of ideologies, in particular how ideologies gain influence among the population, reflected in how public opinion is formed and expressed.
I have articles forthcoming on the non-identity problem in the Journal of Political Philosophy, and on climate change and intergenerational equity in Political Studies. I'm also interested in lotteries, contractualism and aggregation, the precautionary principle, and nuclear deterrence.
I leads the Rights Lab's survivor engagement and policy impact work. I am responsible for collaborating with survivors or lived experience experts to integrate their perspectives in the Rights Lab’s work at all stages of research and in the Rights Lab’s policy engagement work.
I also supports researchers across all five Rights Lab programmes in designing and following through on impact pathways, including sharing their research with stakeholders in the government and in Parliament, as well as with other policy influencers and practitioners in various sectors.
My broad areas of research interests include political behaviour, political communication and political psychology.
My unique expertise is negative campaigning in comparative perspective. On this theme I wrote my dissertation and published numerous articles in international peer-reviewed journals such as Political Communication, Comparative Political Studies, Political Studies, Party Politics, Acta Politica and the Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics.
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