Teresa Bejan, Ph.D.

teresa.bejan@politics.ox.ac.uk

University of Oxford

Country: United Kingdom (England)

About Me:

Teresa M. Bejan is Associate Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. Her research brings perspectives from early modern English and American political thought to bear on questions in contemporary political theory and practice. She has published widely in peer-reviewed journals like The Journal of Politics, the Review of Politics, and History of Political Thought, and in popular venues, including The Atlantic and The Washington Post. Her first book, Mere Civility: Disagreement and the Limits of Toleration (Harvard University Press, 2017) examined contemporary calls for civility in light of seventeenth-century debates about religious toleration and the limits of free speech.Before coming to Oxford, Dr Bejan taught as an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto and as a Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Columbia University. Her Ph.D. dissertation at Yale was awarded the American Political Science Association's 2015 Leo Strauss Award for the best doctoral dissertation in political philosophy, and Dr Bejan was elected as the final Balzan-Skinner Fellow in Modern Intellectual History at Cambridge in 2016. Currently, she is on leave from Oxford on a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to work on a book exploring the history of equality before modern egalitarianism.

Research Interests

Political Theory

Religion & Politics

Political Communication

Toleration

Incivility

Free Speech

Countries of Interest

United States

United Kingdom