Susanne Sreedhar Assistant Professor of Philosophy Office: STH 514 E-mail: sreedhar@bu.edu Education: Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Interests: political philosophy, especially the history of political philosophy, early modern philosophy, feminist philosophy

Susanne Sreedhar received her Ph.D. in 2005 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel HIll. She also received a graduate degree in Women's Studies from Duke University. Before coming to Boston University, she was an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at Tulane University of New Orleans. Professor Sreedhar's current research focuses on the notion of political obligation specifically as it was understood in the 17th Centuray. She is also interested in exploring philosophical questions related to both gender identity and the institution of marriage. Professor Sreedhar teaches courses on ethics and political philosophy, the history of philosophy, and the philosophy of gender and sexuality.

Select Publications:

"Hobbes's Moral and Political Philosophy," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (with Sharon Lloyd); forthcoming.

"Defending Hobbes's Right of Self-Defense," Political Theory; December 2008.

Review of Eleanor Curran's Reclaiming the Rights of the Hobbesian Sovereign, Hobbes Studies; forthcoming.

Review of Patricia Springboard's (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes's Leviathan, Notre Dame Philosophical Review. http://ndpr.nd.edu

Review of Stephen J. Finn's Thomas Hobbes and the Politics of Natural Philosophy, Notre Dame Philosophical Review. http://ndpr.nd.edu

"The Ethics of Exclusion" in Trans and Feminisms, edited by Krista Scott-Dixon. Toronto: Sumach Press, 2006 (with Michael Hand). ?

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