Susanne Sreedhar’s current research is on notions of gender in early modern social contract theory. She teaches courses on ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of law, the history of philosophy, and the philosophy of gender and sexuality. She is a member of the faculty in the BU Department of Philosophy, and a member of the core faculty in the Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Program, and co-directs The Mentoring Project For Pre-tenure Women Faculty in Philosophy. Before coming to Boston University, she was an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies at Tulane University.
She is the author of Hobbes on Resistance: Defying the Leviathan (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and articles and book chapters including:
- “Locke on Marriage.” In The Lockean Mind. Routledge, 2021.
- “Hobbes on Sexual Morality.” Hobbes Studies 33/1: March 2020.
- “The Right of Nature and Political Disobedience: Hobbes’s Puzzling Thought Experiment.” In Hobbes’s On the Citizen: A Critical Guide. Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- “Feminist History of Philosophy.” In Feminism, edited by Carol Hay. Cengage, 2017.
Learn more about her research and activities on her profile page at the Department of Philosophy, or on her personal website.