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WATKINS HALL
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Laursen, John C

Professor of Political Science

College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Political Science


Biography

John Christian Laursen (Professor) received his Ph.D from The Johns Hopkins University, and joined the UCR faculty in 1991. His teaching and research interests include political theory and the history of political thought, with special interests in skepticism, liberalism, cosmopolitanism, and freedom of the press. Professor Laursen is the author of The Politics of Skepticism in the Ancients, Montaigne, Hume, and Kant (1992) in addition to co-translating Carl Friedrich Bahrdt's play, The Edict of Religion (2000). His most recent edited volumes include Continental Millenarians: Protestants, Catholics, Heretics (2001) and Histories of Heresy in Early Modern Europe: For, Against, and Beyond Persecution and Toleration (2002). In addition, Professor Laursen has published numerous articles in journals and given invited lectures in Italy, Argentina, Mexico, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Canada, the United Kingdom, and throughout the United States.

Former Institution

Union College

Degrees

PhD Political Science 1985

Johns Hopkins University

MA Political Science 1981

Johns Hopkins University

JD Law 1977

Harvard Law School

AB Social Studies 1973

Harvard College

Awards

2001 UCR Center for Ideas and Society Seminar Grant
1999 Carlsberg Foundation Research Grant
1997 UCI Humanities Research Institute Seminar Grant
1996 American Philosophical Society Research Grant
1993 UCR Center for Ideas and Society Resident Scholar
1992 UC Regents Grant


Research Area

Political Theory; History of Political Thought; Cosmopolitanism; Freedom of the Press

Publications

The Politics of Skepticism: in the Ancients, Montaigne, Hume, and Kant(E. J. Brill, 1992).

Reviews: "Bibliothèque d'humanisme et de renaissance" 55, 1993, 659-660; "Amer. Historical Rev." 99, 1994, 185-6; "Polit. Studies" 43, 1995, 400; "Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger" 48, 1995, 173-7; "Int'l Studies in Phil." 27, 1995, 120-1; "Scottish Studies Newsletter" 24, 1995/6, 5-9; "Sixteenth Century Journ." 27, 1996, 155-8; "Anales del Seminario de Metafísica" 30, 1996, 349-353.

Editor, New Essays on the Political Thought of the Huguenots of the Refuge (E. J. Brill, 1995).

Editor, with Cary J. Nederman, Difference and Dissent: Theories of Toleration in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Rowman & Littlefield, 1996).

Editor, with Cary J. Nederman, Beyond the Persecuting Society: Religious Toleration Before the Enlightenment (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998).