Eero Arum
I specialize in the history of political thought, especially Renaissance and early modern political philosophy. My research has been published or is forthcoming in Political Theory, History of Political Thought, The Review of Politics, and The Cambridge History of Democracy, Vol. 2: The Middle Ages and Early Modern Period.
My dissertation project, Absolute Democracy, reconstructs absolutist conceptions of democracy in early modern Europe and their revival in Weimar political thought. I also have a longstanding interest in Aristotle and Machiavelli. Before beginning my graduate studies, I received my B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science from the University of Chicago (2018), then taught English as a second language through Fulbright Austria's USTA Program (2018-2020).
"Machiavelli Against Sovereignty: Emergency Powers and the Decemvirate," Political Theory (forthcoming).
"Absolute Democracy: Bodin and Hobbes" (co-authored with Kinch Hoekstra). In The Cambridge History of Democracy, Vol. 2: The Middle Ages and Early Modern Period, edited by Sophie Smith and Markku Peltonen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (forthcoming).