Eric Nelson

Eric Nelson is the Robert M. Beren Professor of Government at Harvard University. His research focuses on the history of political thought in early-modern Europe and America, and on the implications of that history for debates in contemporary political theory. Nelson is the author of The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2004); The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought (Harvard/Belknap, 2010); and The Royalist Revolution: Monarchy and the American Founding (Harvard/Belknap, 2014). He also edited Hobbes's translations of the Iliad and Odyssey for the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes (The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2008). Most recently, he published The Theology of Liberalism: Political Philosophy and the Justice of God (Harvard/Belknap, 2019).