Y IF T A H E L A Z A R Curriculum Vitae October 2014 Address: Email: Telephone: 115 Prospect Street, Rosenkranz Hall 111, New Haven, CT 06520, USA yiftah.elazar@yale.edu +1-646-275-2882 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 1 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 2 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) 4