Syracuse University

Julie Cooper

Julie E. Cooper is a new addition to the Judaic Studies faculty, having received her Ph.D. in Rhetoric from the University of California at Berkeley in 2003. Cooper’s interests are in the history of political thought, Jewish thought and critical theory. Currently employed by the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs in the Department of Political Science, Cooper teaches courses on Religion and modern political thought and the social contract tradition.

Cooper is working on a forthcoming article titled “Freedom of Speech and Philosophical Citizenship in Spinoza’s Theologico-Political Treatise” in Law, Culture and the Humanities, and two book projects, Modesty and Dignity in Modern Political Theory and Politics without Sovereignty? States and Statelessness in Jewish Political Thought.

Courses:

Teaching:

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs (2005-present), Syracuse University.

Lecturer, Department of Political Science and Mellon Fellow, Society of Fellows in the Humanities (2003-2005), Columbia University.

Articles:

“Freedom of Speech and Philosophical Citizenship in Spinoza’s Theologico-Political Treatise,” Law, Culture, and the Humanities, February 2006

Book Reviews:

Review of The Jewish Political Tradition, Vol. II Membership, eds. Michael Walzer et al., AJS Review: The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies, November 2005

Review of Politics and the Limits of Law: Secularizing the Political in Medieval Jewish Thought, by Menachem Lorberbaum, Political Theory, August 2003

Review of The Jewish Political Tradition, Vol. I Authority, eds. Michael Walzer et al., Tikkun: A Bimonthly Jewish Critique of Politics, Culture, and Society, July/August 2001

Works in Progress:

Modesty and Dignity in Modern Political Theory (book manuscript)

Politics without Sovereignty? States and Statelessness in Jewish Political Thought (book manuscript)

Presentations:

“Hobbius de se: Thomas Hobbes on the Political Theorist’s Vocation,” Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities, Syracuse University Law School, March 17-18, 2006

Panelist, “Roundtable on Shai Levi’s The Modern Art of Dying,” Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities, Syracuse University Law School, March 17-18, 2006

“Moses: The Politics of Modesty,” Association for Jewish Studies, Chicago, Ill., December 19-21, 2004

“The Modesty of Mosaic Politics,” American Political Science Association, Chicago, Ill., September 2-5, 2004

Panelist, “Roundtable on the Jewish Political Tradition, Vol. II,” American Political Science Association, Chicago, Ill., September 2-5, 2004

“Spinoza: Freedom of Speech as a Philosophical Ethos,” Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities, University of Connecticut Law School, March 12-13, 2004

“Nietzsche’s ‘Art of Silence,’” American Political Science Association, Boston, Mass., August 29-September 1, 2002

“Moses the Modest Law-Giver,” Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania Law School, March 8-9, 2002

“Coercion and Consent at Sinai: Reading the Sinai Covenant as a Problem of Political Obligation,” Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities, University of Texas, Austin, March 9-10, 2001

“Prophecy, Philosophy, and Political Theory in Spinoza’s Theologico-Political Treatise,” Beyond Understanding: Reconsidering Knowledge and Belief, University of California, Berkeley, April 14-15, 2000

“Vainglory, Modesty, and Negative Theology in Hobbes’ Leviathan,” Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities, Georgetown University Law Center, March 10-12, 2000

Awards and Fellowships:

Summer 2006: Appleby-Mosher Grant

2003-2005: Mellon Fellow, Society of Fellows in the Humanities, Columbia University

2003-2004: Academic Year Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (declined)

2002-2003: American Association of University Women American Dissertation Fellowship

2002-2003: Dissertation Fellow, Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities

2002-2003: Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (declined)

2002-2003: Chancellor’s Dissertation-Year Fellowship (declined)

Summer 2002: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library/Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies Predoctoral Fellowship

Summer 2001: Summer Merit/Need Fellowship and Departmental Block Grant to fund intensive Latin language study

Summer 1999: Dorot Foundation Israel Travel Grant, Newhouse Travel Grant, to fund study in Hebrew language and Jewish political thought at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Summer 1998: Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, Wollenberg Grant, to fund Hebrew language study at the Jewish Theological Seminary, New York

1994: Phi Beta Kappa