Alison McQueen

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Alison McQueen

  • Associate Professor of Political Science
  • Faculty affiliate of The Europe Center
  • Faculty Fellow of Center for Ethics in Society

Biography

Alison McQueen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University.  Her research focuses on early modern political theory and the history of International Relations thought.  Alison's book, Political Realism in Apocalyptic Times (Cambridge University Press, 2018), traces the responses of three canonical political realists—Niccolò Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, and Hans Morgenthau—to hopes and fears about the end of the world. A second book project, Absolving God: Hobbes’s Scriptural Politics, tracks and explains changes in Thomas Hobbes’s strategies of Scriptural argument over time.  Alison is starting a third book project on treason in the history of political thought. Her other ongoing research projects explore applications of computational text analysis methods in political theory, and the ethics and politics of catastrophe.

publications

Books
November 2019

"'A Rhapsody of Heresies': The Scriptural Politics of 'On the Citizen'" (Chapter in "Hobbes's 'On the Citizen': A Critical Guide")

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Books
December 2018

Political Realism in Apocalyptic Times

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