Eileen Hunt Botting

Eileen Botting

Rank

Regular Faculty - Professor

Title

Fellow, Kroc Institute for Peace Studies
Fellow, Nanovic Institute for European Studies
Fellow, Massachusetts Historical Society

Field(s)

Political Theory

Education

Ph.D. in Political Science (Yale University, 2001)

Research and Teaching Interests

Political Theory, Comparative Political Theory, History of Political Thought
Subjects: Enlightenment, American, Feminist, Liberal, and International Political Thought

Advising Specialties

Graduate and law school; Rhodes and Marshall scholarships; student-athletes.

Biography

Eileen Hunt Botting is a political theorist whose scholarly interests cover 17th-19th century political thought from Hobbes to Mill; feminism, liberalism and the family; human rights, women's rights, and children's rights; the ethics of biotechnology and artificial intelligence; and comparative, international, literary, and feminist approaches to political theory and the history of political thought. Her books include Family Feuds: Wollstonecraft, Burke, and Rousseau on the Transformation of the Family (SUNY, 2006), Wollstonecraft, Mill, and Women's Human Rights (Yale, 2016) and Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child: Political Philosophy in 'Frankenstein' (Penn Press, 2017). Her current book project is Political Science Fictions: Reconceiving Humanity from Shelley to Ishiguro.