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Eric Nelson
Assistant Professor of Government
Biographical Note:
Eric Nelson is Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard University. He is chiefly interested in the history of republican political theory, the reception of classical political thought in early-modern Europe, theories of property, and the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. Nelson is the author of The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2004), and editor of Hobbes's translations of the Iliad and Odyssey for the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes (The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2008). His newest book, The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought, is forthcoming from Harvard University Press. His work may also be found in Renaissance Quarterly, Political Theory, The Historical Journal, Milton Studies, The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory, and The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy. Nelson received his AB summa cum laude from Harvard University (1999) and his PhD from The University of Cambridge (2002). He has also been a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows, a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and a British Marshall Scholar.
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