Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA 92521 U.S.A.

Author or co-author of over 100 journal articles and book chapters in political theory and the history of political ideas. Selected articles:

“Northern Declarations of Freedom of the Press: The Relative Importance of Philosophical Ideas and of Local Politics”, Journal of the History of Ideas 81, 2020, 217-237. With Jonas Nordin.

“Ancient Skepticism and Modern Fiction: Some Political Implications”, Elenchos: Journal of Studies on Ancient Thought 40, 2019, 199-215.

“Montaigne in American Political Theory: Two Generations”, Montaigne Studies 31, 2019, 97-110. With Kevin Pham.

“Custom in Hume’s Politics and Economics” in The Humean Mind, eds. Angela Coventry and Alex Sager (New York: Routledge, 2019), 338-348. 

“Carl Friedrich Bahrdt y la idea de un derecho humano a la satisfacción sexual”, Revista de Estudios Políticos 163, 2014, 265-288.

Editor or co-editor of 17 books, of which the most recent is:

Clandestine philosophy: New studies on subversive manuscripts in early modern Europe, 1620-1823, eds. G. Paganini, M. Jacob, and J. C. Laursen (University of Toronto Press, 2020).

Fulbright Senior Scholar, Instituto de Filosofía, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain and Departamento de Filosofía, Antropología, Sociología, y Estética, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo, Spain, March 29-July 12, 2019.

Fulbright Senior Lecturer, Departamento de filosofía y antropología social, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain, fall quarter 2012.

Professeur invité, Ecole Normale Supérieur Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Lyon, France, month of December, 2009.

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