Jacqueline Broad

I am Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Monash Philosophy Department.

I was awarded my PhD at Monash in 2000. Since then, 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.

I am the Series Editor of Cambridge University Press’s new Elements series on Women in the History of Philosophy.

I am on the advisory boards for Oxford University Press's Oxford New Histories of Philosophy series and Duke University's Project Vox site, and on the editorial boards of the journals Australasian Philosophical Review and Locke Studies.

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 most recent publication is a two-volume edited collection of women's philosophical letters: Women Philosophers of Eighteenth-Century England: Selected Correspondence (OUP 2020) and Women Philosophers of Seventeenth-Century England: Selected Correspondence (OUP 2019).

You can hear me discussing these books here as part of the St Andrews Institute of Intellectual History interview series.

My other publications include Women Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century (CUP 2002); A History of Women's Political Thought in Europe, 1400-1800 (with Karen Green, CUP 2009); and The Philosophy of Mary Astell (OUP 2015).

I am also the editor of Women and Liberty, 1600-1800 (co-edited with Karen Detlefsen; OUP 2017), Virtue, Liberty and Toleration (co-edited with Karen Green; Springer 2007), and a modernised critical edition of Astell's Christian Religion (CRRS & Iter 2013).

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

I am also a co-investigator on the project Extending New Narratives in the History of Philosophy, funded by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Partnership Grant, and headed by Professor Lisa Shapiro (Simon Fraser University), with twelve partner institutions worldwide.

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.