I am an Associate Professor in the Monash Philosophy Department. I was awarded my PhD at Monash in 2000. Since then, I have published three books and five edited volumes on early modern women's philosophy. I have been the recipient of two research fellowships from the Australian Research Council: an Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship (2004-07) and a Future Fellowship (2010-16). In 2018, I was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

My main area of specialisation is the history of philosophy, with a particular focus on women philosophers of the early modern period (c. 1650-1750).

I have written on early modern theories of virtue, the ethical and religious foundations of women's rights, historical conceptions of the self, the Lockean idea of slavery, and connections between feminism and Cartesianism in the seventeenth century.

My books include: Women Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2002); A History of Women's Political Thought in Europe, 1600-1800 (with Karen Green, Cambridge University Press, 2009); and The Philosophy of Mary Astell (Oxford University Press, 2015).

My edited books include: Virtue, Liberty and Toleration (with Karen Green, Springer 2007); Mary Astell's Christian Religion (CRRS & Iter, 2013); Women and Liberty, 1600-1800: Philosophical Essays (with Karen Detlefsen, Oxford University Press, 2017); and Women Philosophers of Seventeenth-Century England: Selected Correspondence (Oxford University Press, 2019), and Women Philosophers of Eighteenth-Century England: Selected Correspondence (Oxford University Press, 2020).

I am currently engaged in an ARC-funded Discovery Project on the philosophical foundations of women's rights (1600-1750), with D. Brown and M. Deslauriers

My past research projects include a Future Fellowship project on the ethical thought of seventeenth-century feminist philosopher Mary Astell (2010-16), and a Discovery Project on women and liberty in the early modern and enlightenment periods, with K. Green and K. Detlefsen (2014-2019).

For further information about my research (including an up-to-date list of publications), please go to my personal webpage.

Related Links:

• jacquelinebroad.com (includes CV and downloadable papers)
• Academia profile
• Google scholar profile
• ResearchGate
• PhilPapers

I am interested in supervising postgraduate students who would like to work on early modern philosophy and the history of feminism and ethical thought. Please do get in touch if you have a project in mind.