Eric M. Nelson

Eric Nelson is an American historian and Professor of Government at Harvard University.

He received his A.B. from Harvard University (1999) and his PhD from The University of Cambridge (2002).

His scholarly interests include the reception of classical political thought in early-modern Europe, the history of republican political theory, the Hebrew republic, theories of property, and the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes.

Books

• The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought, (Cambridge University Press, 2004)

• The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought, forthcoming from Harvard University Press

• 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).

References

http://www.gov.harvard.edu/about-department/faculty-staff-directory/eric-nelson