Julie Cooper Ph.D.,
University of California, Berkeley, Department of Rhetoric

Julie E. Cooper received the Ph.D. in Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2003. Her dissertation, entitled "Self-Assertion and Self-Effacement in Modern Political Theory," explores the political resonance of modesty and pride. Through readings of texts by Thomas Hobbes, Baruch Spinoza, and Friedrich Nietzsche, the dissertation investigates the ethos appropriate to democratic political culture. As a postdoctoral fellow, Julie will expand this project by situating her readings in the history of modern political theory within contemporary debates amongst democratic theorists. Julie will also begin a second project, "The Modesty of Mosaic Politics," which explores Jewish conceptions of political subjectivity. She will teach Contemporary Civilization.

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