Jennifer Pitts, University of Chicago
Associate Professor
Chicago, Illinois
jpitts@uchicago.edu
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(773) 702-8868
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Jennifer Pitts is Associate Professor of Political Science. She is author of A Turn to Empire: the rise of imperial liberalism in Britain and France (Princeton 2005) and editor and translator of Alexis de Tocqueville: writings on empire and slavery (Johns Hopkins 2001). Her research interests lie...
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Jennifer Pitts is Associate Professor of Political Science. She is author of A Turn to Empire: the rise of imperial liberalism in Britain and France (Princeton 2005) and editor and translator of Alexis de Tocqueville: writings on empire and slavery (Johns Hopkins 2001). Her research interests lie in the fields of modern political and international thought, particularly British and French thought of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; empire; the history of international law; and global justice. She is currently at work on a book, tentatively entitled Boundaries of the International, which explores European debates over legal relations with extra-European societies during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She is a co-editor of the Cambridge University Press series Ideas in Context. At the University of Chicago, she is a member of the faculty boards for the Human Rights Program, the Nicholson Center for British Studies, and the Franke Institute for the Humanities, and a member of the Women’s Leadership Council.
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