John Christian Laursen
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Professor 2224 Watkins Hall John Christian Laursen (Professor) received his Ph.D from The Johns Hopkins University, and joined the UCR faculty in 1991. His teaching and research interests include political theory and the history of political thought, with special interests in skepticism, liberalism, cosmopolitanism, and freedom of the press. Professor Laursen is the author of The Politics of Skepticism in the Ancients, Montaigne, Hume, and Kant (1992) in addition to co-translating Carl Friedrich Bahrdt's play, The Edict of Religion (2000) and Early French and German Defenses of Freedom of the Press (2003) and co-editing Denis Veiras, The History of the Sevarambians (2006). His most recent edited volumes include Histories of Heresy in Early Modern Europe: For, Against, and Beyond Persecution and Toleration (2002), Heresy in Transition: Transforming Ideas of Heresy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (2005), and Monarchisms in the Age of Enlightenment: Liberty, Patriotism, and the Common Good (2007). In addition, Professor Laursen has published numerous articles in journals and books and given invited lectures in Russia, Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Spain, Canada, the United Kingdom, and throughout the United States. He received the 2004-2005 Teaching Award from the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at UC Riverside, and held the Canada Blanch Chair at the University of Valencia, Spain, in February-March 2005.
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