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Alison McQueen

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Associate Professor of Political Science
Honors Program Advisor

Alison McQueen is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Political Science and History (by courtesy) at Stanford University. Her research focuses on early modern political theory and the history of International Relations thought.

McQueen’s book, Political Realism in Apocalyptic Times (Cambridge University Press, 2018), traces the responses of three canonical political realists—Niccolò Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, and Hans Morgenthau—to hopes and fears about the end of the world. 

A second book project, Absolving God: Hobbes’s Scriptural Politics, tracks and explains changes in Thomas Hobbes’s strategies of Scriptural argument over time.  A third book project examines treason and betrayal in the history of political thought. 

Learn more: https://www.alisonmcqueen.info/