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Vickie Sullivan
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Tufts University
Dept. of Political Science
Packard Hall, Rm. 206
Medford, MA 02155
Office: 617.627.2328
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Cornelia M. Jackson Professor of Political Science
Expertise
Political Theory
Education
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1990
Biography
Vickie Sullivan is the Cornelia M. Jackson Professor of Political Science and teaches and studies political thought and philosophy. She also maintains teaching and research interests in politics and literature. Her most recent book is Montesquieu and the Despotic Ideas of Europe published by the University of Chicago Press in 2017. Her articles have appeared in The American Political Science Review, History of European Ideas, History of Political Thought, Political Theory, Polity, and Review of Politics. Her current project is tentatively entitled "Modern Empires, Political and Philosophical."
Selected Publications
- Montesquieu and the Despotic Ideas of Europe, University of Chicago Press, 2017.
- "Despotism Is All Around Us: The Warnings of Montesquieu," Aeon, January 2018.
- "Montesquieu's Teaching on the Dangers of Extreme Corrections: Japan, the Catholic Inquisition, and Moderation in The Spirit of the Laws," with Nathaniel Gilmore (first author), American Political Science Review 111 (August 2017): 460-70.
- Spectacles and Sociability: Rousseau's Response in His Letter to d'Alembert to Montesquieu's Treatment of the Theatre and of French and English Society (co-authored with Katherine Balch, A14), History of European Ideas, Volume 41 (2015).
- Machiavelli, Hobbes, and the Formation of a Liberal Republicanism in England, Cambridge University Press, 2004
- Machiavelli's Three Romes: Religion, Human Liberty, and Politics Reformed, Northern Illinois University Press, 1996
- The Comedy and Tragedy of Machiavelli: Essays on the Literary Works, Yale University Press, 2000
- Shakespeare's Political Pageant, (co-editor with Joseph Alulis), Rowman & Littlefield, 1996
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