Janet Coleman

Janet Coleman FRHS (born 1945, New York [ [http://errol.oclc.org/laf/n81-52111.html Library of Congress Name Authority File] ] ) is a British academic and historian of political theory.

She is currently the Professor of Ancient and Medieval Political Thought at the London School of Economics. She was the first woman to receive a chair in the LSE government department.Interview with Janet Coleman, "Dispatch Box", no. 4 (March 2008)] Her research interests include ancient Greek and Roman political thought, medieval philosophy, and theories of citizenship and the state.

Coleman studied at L'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris and received her Ph.D. from Yale University. She has held teaching appointments in politics at Exeter University and on the History Faculty of the University of Cambridge.

In 1980 she co-founded (with Iain Hampsher-Monk) the international journal "History of Political Thought", which she continues to co-edit. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Coleman has taught at LSE since 1989, where from 2001 to 2004 she held a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship. She enjoys the devotion of some of her students as a result of her dynamic lecture style and contrarian readings of political texts. Her lectures in the introductory government course at the LSE are known for her attempts to "'be' political philosophers from the ancient Greeks to Machiavelli."Interview with Janet Coleman, "Dispatch Box", no. 4 (March 2008)] Coleman plans to retire in 2010.Interview with Janet Coleman, "Dispatch Box", no. 4 (March 2008)] She has been offered a Global Distinguished Professorship at New York University.

Coleman resides in Cambridge.

Select bibliography

*"English Literature in History 1350-1400: Medieval Readers and Writers", 1981
*"Against the State: Studies in Sedition and Rebellion", 1990
*"Ancient and Medieval Memories: Studies in the Reconstruction of the Past", 1992
*"The Individual in Political Theory and Practice", 1996
*"Scholastics, Enlightenments and Philosophic Radicals: Essays in Honour of J. H. Burns" (ed.), 1999
*"A History of Political Thought, from Ancient Greece to Early Christianity", 2000
*"A History of Political Thought, from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance", 2000

References

External links

* [http://www.lse.ac.uk/people/[e-mail]/ Coleman's LSE profile]
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