Eileen Hunt 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 include 17th-19th c. political thought; theories of human rights, women's rights, and children's rights; bioethics; and comparative, international, and feminist approaches to 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 GMO Literature: Political Science Fiction from Shelley to Ishiguro.

Office Hours

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Contact Information

Office: 2171 Jenkins Nanovic Halls
Phone: 574-631-5051
Fax: 574-631-4405
Email: ehunt@nd.edu

Mailing Address

Department of Political Science
2060 Jenkins Nanovic Halls
Notre Dame, IN 46556

Vita

Botting CV

Website(s)

http://nd.academia.edu/EileenHuntBotting

http://www3.nd.edu/~hmcs/