Prof. Teresa M. Bejan
Curriculum Vitae
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Academic Appointments
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Associate Professor of Political Theory, Department of Politics and International Relations
Tutorial Fellow, Oriel College
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto Mississauga
Assistant Professor, Graduate Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Mellon Research Fellow, Society of Fellows in the Humanities
Lecturer, Department of Political Science
Education
YALE UNIVERSITY, Ph.D. with Distinction, Department of Political Science
Dissertation: Mere Civility: Toleration and its Limits in Early Modern England and America
Committee: Bryan Garsten (Chair), Karuna Mantena, Steven Smith, James Q. Whitman
Winner of the 2015 APSA Leo Strauss Award in Political Philosophy
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, M.Phil., Political Thought and Intellectual History
Dissertation: The Political Thought of John Milton’s Of Education
Supervisors: Mark Goldie, Quentin Skinner
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, B.A. with Honors, Fundamentals: Issues and Texts
Publications
BOOKS
Mere Civility: Disagreement and the Limits of Toleration (forthcoming with Harvard University Press, Jan. 2017)
(ed.) John Locke: Four Letters on Toleration, 2 vols., The Clarendon Edition of the Works of
John Locke (The Clarendon Press, Oxford, engaged).
ARTICLES (REFEREED)
“John Locke on Toleration, (In)civility, and the Quest for Concord,” History of Political Thought (forthcoming).
“Difference without Disagreement: Re-thinking Hobbes on ‘Independency’ and Toleration,”
Review of Politics (Jan 2016).
“Evangelical Toleration,” The Journal of Politics (October 2015).
“‘The Bond of Civility’: Roger Williams on Toleration and its Limits,” History of European
Ideas 37 (2011), 409-420.
“Teaching the Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes on Education,” Oxford Review of Education 36:5
(2010), 607-626. Reprinted in the collection, Ideas of Education: Political and Philosophical Perspectives from Plato to the Nineteenth Century, edited by C. Brooke and E. Frazer,(Routledge, 2013).
BOOK CHAPTERS
“First Impressions: Hobbes, Education, and Imprinting,” invited chapter for Hobbes on
Politics and Religion, edited by Robin Douglass and Laurens van Apeldoorn (Oxford
University Press, under contract).
“‘When the Word of the Lord Runs Freely’: Roger Williams and Evangelical Toleration,”
invited chapter for The Lively Experiment: The Story of Religious Toleration in America,
from Roger Williams to the Present, edited by Christopher Beneke and Christopher Grenda (Rowman and Littlefield, 2015).
“The Difficult Work of Liberal Civility,” co-authored with Bryan Garsten, invited chapter for
Civility, Legality, and the Limits of Justice, edited by Austin Sarat (Cambridge University
Press, 2014).
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Forum on Saba Mahmood’s Religious Freedom in a Secular Age: A Minority Report, in The Journal of Politics, Religion, and Ideology (forthcoming)
“Review of J. Judd Owen’s Making Religion Safe for Democracy,” Review of Politics
(forthcoming)
“Review of John Coffey’s Exodus and Liberation,” Politics and Religion (Aug 2014)
“Quentin Skinner: the Art of Theory interview.” (Nov/Dec 2011)
Published in two parts, “Quentin Skinner on Meaning and Method” and “Quentin Skinner
in Context,” in The Art of Theory (www.artoftheory.com).
WORKING PAPERS
“Acknowledging Equality (or, Hobbes and Hats)” (7th annual Balzan-Skinner lecture, in
preparation for submission to the Historical Journal)
“For the Want Whereof this Nation Perishes’: John Milton on Education”
“Reconsidering Tolerance: Theory and Practice for the 21st Century” (with Calvert Jones)
“New Worlds: Williams, Penn, and the place of Utopia in Colonial Founding”
“Locke, the Letter, and the rise of ‘Liberal’ Toleration”
“Toleration or Concord? Rawls’s Eirenic Liberalism”
Awards & Honors
Balzan-Skinner Fellowship in Modern Intellectual History, University of Cambridge
Leo Strauss Award for the best dissertation in Political Theory, APSA
Connaught New Researcher Award, University of Toronto
Fellow, Society of Fellows in the Humanities, Columbia University
Leylan Fellowship, for exceptional work in the Humanities, Yale University
Yale University Dissertation Fellowship
Falk Fellowship, for the study of American Politics, Yale University
Fox Fellowship, for research at Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge
Robert C. Wood Prize, New England Political Science Association
For the best graduate student paper in any field of political science at the annual meeting.
Yale University Graduate Fellowship
University Scholar, University of Chicago
Phi Beta Kappa, University of Chicago
Lectures & Invited Talks
“Acknowledging Equality: Respect and Contempt in 17th-c. English Political Thought”
7th Annual Balzan-Skinner Lecture, CRASSH/University of Cambridge
“For the Want Whereof this Nation Perishes’: John Milton on Education”
Oriel College, University of Oxford
“‘Liberal’ Toleration: from Concordia to Tolerantia”
Symposium on Toleration, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago
“Wars of Words: Civility and Toleration in Early Modern Political Thought”
Invited Lecture, Department of Political Science, University of California at Davis
“Difference without Disagreement: Re-thinking the Tolerant Hobbes”
Political Theory Workshop, Georgetown University
“‘If It Be Without Contention’: Hobbes on Difference without Disagreement”
Political Thought and Intellectual History Seminar, University of Cambridge
“Toleration, Difference, Disagreement”
“Religious Toleration in the Modern World,” Goettingen Institute for Advanced Studies
in the Humanities and Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbuettel, Germany
“Mere Civility: Tolerating Disagreement in Early Modern England and America”
Invited Lecture, Society of Fellows, Columbia University
“The Difficult Work of Liberal Civility”
Co-authored with Bryan Garsten, invited paper for “Civility, Legality, and the Limits of
Justice” conference at the University of Alabama School of Law
Conferences & Workshops
“Missionary Political Thought,” invited paper for “Global Enlightenment” conference
Princeton University
“Reconsidering Tolerance: Theory and Practice for the 21st Century,” co-authored with
Calvert W. Jones (University of Maryland)
American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia PA
Invited participant, “Author Meets Critics: Steven B. Smith, Modernity and its Discontents”
American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia PA
“Mere Civility”
Seminar in Constitutional Thought, Rothermere American Institute, Oxford
“The Anti-Utopian Roger Williams”
Invited paper for Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Providence, RI
“Acknowledging Equality”
Harvard Political Theory Workshop
CRASSH work in progress seminar, Cambridge
Political Theory Research Workshop, All Soul’s College, Oxford
“Liberal Toleration? Locke and Rawls on Concord”
History of Political Thought seminar, Oxford
Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Juan PR
“Mirrors for Citizens: The Political Thought of John Milton’s Of Education”
American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA
History of Political Ideas Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London
“Hobbes against Hate Speech”
European Hobbes Society Annual Meeting, King’s College London
“Persecution of the Tongue”
Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, Toronto ON
“Evangelical Toleration”
Workshop on “The Toleration of Tolerations” at the Society of Fellows, Columbia University
Ethics at Noon workshop, Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Invited participant in roundtable discussion of Rainer Forst’s Toleration in Conflict
Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University
“‘If It Be Without Contention’: Hobbes on Difference without Disagreement”
European Hobbes Society Annual Meeting, King’s College London
“Evangelical Toleration?”
“Spectacle of Toleration,” conference hosted by Newport Historical Society, Newport, RI
“Persecution of the Tongue: Toleration and Religious Insult in Early Liberal Political Thought” American Political Science Association annual meeting, Chicago, IL
“Persecution of the Tongue: Roger Williams and John Locke on Toleration and Free Expression”
Political Theory Workshop, Yale University
“Locke on Toleration, (In)civility, and the Quest for Concord”
Paper accepted for presentation at American Political Science Association meeting
“Difference without Disagreement: Hobbes on Toleration”
Political Thought and Intellectual History Workshop, Cambridge
“John Locke on Toleration, Comprehension, and Concord”
Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting, Chicago, IL
Invited participant in roundtable discussion of Eric Foner’s The Fiery Trial
“Rethinking Lincoln,” conference hosted by Yale Center for the Study of Representative
Institutions
“Freedom and Just Punishment in the Thought of John Locke”
Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting, Chicago, IL
“Missionary Toleration: Roger Williams on Conversion and Civility”
New England Political Science Association annual meeting, Newport, RI
-Winner of Robert C. Wood Prize for best graduate paper in all fields of political science
Teaching
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Plato to Rousseau (undergraduate lecture)
Theorizing the Democratic State
Theory of Politics
Machiavelli to Burke (MPhil seminar)
Plato and Aristotle (MPhil seminar)
Research Design Seminar (MPhil seminar)
Constructing the Text: Locke's Letters on Toleration (archival methods option)
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
Introduction to Political Theory
Toleration and its Limits
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Contemporary Civilization (Columbia Core ethics and political thought course)
Foundations of American Political Thought
YALE UNIVERSITY (as seminar leader/teaching fellow)
The Political Philosophy of Hobbes (graduate seminar guest-instructor)
Modern Political Philosophy (guest-lecturer on Locke)
Ancient Political Philosophy
Moral Foundations of Politics
Lincoln at 200 (writing-intensive course)
Academic Service & Activities
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Political Science Association, Canadian Political Science Association, Social Science History Association, Association for Political Theory, Conference for the Study of Political Thought, Organization of American Historians
RESEARCH GROUPS
History of Political Thought Network (Oxford), Political Theory Research Network (Oxford), Centre for Ethics (University of Toronto), European Hobbes Society, Conference for the Study of Political Thought, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (University of Toronto), Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions (2011-2013), Yale Initiative on Religion, Politics, and Society (2007-2013)
REFEREE
Journals: American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, British Journal of the History of Philosophy, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Journal of Church and State, Locke Studies
CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
Co-Convener (with Elizabeth Frazer and Simon Caney), conference on “Public Life and
Religious Diversity,” University of Oxford
Co-Convener (with Sophie Smith), conference on “The Historical Rawls”
Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford
Co-Convener, Oxford Political Theory Research Workshop
Organizer, “The Toleration of Tolerations,” one-day workshop
Featured papers by Andrew Sabl (UCLA/Yale) and Ira Katznelson (Columbia)
Society of Fellows, Columbia University
Co-organizer and participant, Roundtable on Rainer Forst’s Toleration in Conflict
Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University
Co-organizer, “Materiality,” invited lecture series, Columbia Society of Fellows
Convener, “Toleration and its Limits,” reading group/speaker series, Yale University
Editorial Board Member, The Art of Theory,
Conference Committee Member, “Politics, Order, Law,” Cambridge University
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