YIFTAH ELAZAR

Y IF T A H E L A Z A R
Curriculum Vitae
October 2014
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EDUCATION
2012
Ph.D., Politics, Princeton University
2005
M. A., Political Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, magna cum laude
2001-2003
M. A., Philosophy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (switched to Political Science
before completion)
2001
B. A., Philosophy and the Amirim Interdisciplinary Honors Program in the
Humanities, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, B.A., magna cum laude
APPOINTMENTS
2013-2015
Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale Center for the Study of Representative
Institutions and Department of Political Science, Yale University
2012-2013
Lady Davis Postdoctoral Fellow, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
PRIZES AND HONORS
2010-2011
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation / American Council of Learned Societies
Dissertation Fellowship
2009-2010
Graduate Prize Fellowship, Princeton University Center for Human Values
2005-2010
Edmund S. Carpenter Graduate Fellowship in Politics, Princeton University
2005-2007
Fulbright Grant, U.S. Department of State-Israel Educational Foundation
(turned down)
2004-2005
Prize in Political Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2004-2005
Rector’s Prize in Social Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2001-2002
Rector’s Prize in the Humanities, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2001
First Prize in Philosophy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1997-2001
Amirim Interdisciplinary Honors Program, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Articles
2015
“Liberty as a Caricature: Bentham’s Antidote to Republicanism,” Journal of the
History of Ideas (forthcoming)
2014
“Adam Ferguson on Modern Liberty and the Absurdity of Democracy,” History
of Political Thought, Volume 35, No. 4, pp. 768-787
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Encyclopedia Entrees
2014
“Ferguson, Adam,” in Blackwell’s Encyclopedia of Political Thought, ed. Michael T.
Gibbons
WORK IN PROGRESS
Books
The Invention of Self-Government: Richard Price and His Critics on Liberty and the Power of
the People
Edited Volumes
Republicanism and Democracy, co-edited with Geneviève Rousselière (proposal
under review by Cambridge University Press)
Articles
“Contestatory Citizenship”
“Republicanism, Dignity, and Democracy”
"The Impartial Patriot: Hume and Smith on Enlightened Patriotism"
“’Moderation is Detestable: Cartwright and the Birth of Democratic Radicalism”
LECTURES AND CONFERENCES
Invited Lectures
2015
“Richard Price on Self-Government,” Georgetown Theory Workshop,
Washington, DC, February
2013
“Political Liberty and the Dignity of Man in the Commonwealth Tradition,”
Institute of Historical Research, University of London, London, February
2011
“’Every Man is His Own Legislator:’ The 1776 British Liberty Debate and Its
Contribution to Democratic Thought,” Jerusalem Seminar for the History of
Political Thought, Department of Political Science, Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, May
2010
“Adam Ferguson and the Republican Critique of the American Revolution,”
workshop entitled “Competing for Freedom: Democracy and the Republic,”
Department of Political Science, Columbia University, New York, December
Conferences and Panels Organized
2015
“Adam Smith: Critic of Capitalism?,” conference co-organized with Michelle
Schwarze (University of Wisconsin-Madison) at Yale University, New Haven,
April 10th
2014
“Liberty, Domination, and Democracy: Rethinking Freedom in Commercial
Society,” conference organized at Yale University, New Haven, April 18th
2013
“Pettit’s On the People’s Terms: Non-Domination and the Power of the People,”
panel co-organized with Geneviève Rousselière (University of Chicago) at the
American Political Science Association, Chicago, August
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Conference, Workshop, and Seminar Papers
2014
“Contestatory Citizenship,” Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April
2013
“The Free State and the Power of the People,” American Political Science
Association, Chicago, August
2013
“Adam Ferguson on Savages, Barbarians, and the Otherness of Democracy,”
Mediterranean Society for the Study of the Scottish Enlightenment, Haifa, June
2013
“Republican Liberty, Human Dignity, and Democracy,” Israel Political Science
Association, Jerusalem, May
2011
“The Dignity of Freedom: Richard Price on the Moral Foundation of
Democracy,” Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, March
2010
“On Moderation in Theory,” workshop entitled “Animating Moderation,”
University Center for Human Values, Princeton University, Princeton,
November
2010
“The American Debate and the Invention of Negative Liberty,” American
Political Science Association, Washington, September
2010
“From Corporate to Individual Self-Government: Richard Price and Democratic
Thought,” Forum for the History of Political Thought and Intellectual History,
University of London, London, May
2010
“Richard Price on the Freedom of the Citizen and the Dignity of Democratic
Participation,” Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April
2009
“’Power to the Wise, and Safety to All:’ Adam Ferguson and the ‘Republican’
Argument against the American Revolution,” American Political Science
Association, Toronto, September
2009
“Richard Price on Free Agency,” Graduate Research Seminar in Political Theory,
Department of Politics, Princeton University, Princeton, October
2008
“’Power to the Wise, and Safety to All:’ Adam Ferguson’s Republican Argument
against the American Revolution,” Department of Politics, Princeton University,
Princeton, November
2007
“Imagination and Custom in Hume’s Political Thought,” Graduate Research
Seminar in Political Theory, Department of Politics, Princeton University,
Princeton, December
2007
“Hume’s Conservatism Reconsidered,” Graduate Research Seminar in Political
Theory, Department of Politics, Princeton University, Princeton, February
2006
“Enlightening Patriotism: Reflections on Love of Country and Love of Mankind
in Eighteenth Century Britain,” Graduate Research Seminar in Political Theory,
Department of Politics, Princeton University, Princeton, April
Chair and Discussant
2014
“Recognition and Inclusion,” discussant, Midwest Political Science Association,
Chicago, April
2013
“Paine on the American and the French Revolutions,” chair, conference on
“Burke, Paine, and the Age of Revolutions,” Yale University, New Haven,
November
3
2013
“Pettit’s On the People’s Terms: Non-Domination and the Power of the People,”
co-chair with Geneviève Rousselière, American Political Science Association,
Chicago, August
2010
“Exploring John Locke,” discussant, Midwest Political Science Association,
Chicago, April
TEACHING
2014-5
The Contested Idea of Liberty, undergraduate seminar, departments of Political
Science and History, Yale University
2013-4
The Invention of Modern Democracy, undergraduate seminar, departments of
Political Science and History, Yale University
2007-8
Introduction to Political Theory, Teaching Assistant & Course Administrator,
Department of Politics, Princeton University (Maurizio Viroli)
2008
Conservative Political Thought, Teaching Assistant, Department of Politics,
Princeton University (Jan-Werner Müller)
2002-3
Science and Skepticism in Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature, instructor in directed
reading, Amirim Program for Excellence in the Humanities, Hebrew University
of Jerusalem
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Political Science Association
Midwest Political Science Association
Israel Political Science Association
NON-ACADEMIC WORK
2003-5
Regular contributor for the Israel Democracy Institute’s journal for media review
1993-2003
Senior news editor and news reporter for some of Israel’s major media outlets,
including Yedioth Ahronoth, Ynet, and Galei-Zahal
LANGUAGES
English – fluent (reading, writing, and speaking)
Hebrew – native (reading, writing, and speaking)
French – intermediate (reading)
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