Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
I am Associate Professor in the Monash Philosophy Department and Director of the Philosophy Graduate Research Program.
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.
Research interests
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
Supervision interests
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.
Research area keywords
- Early modern philosophy
- History of feminism
- Women philosophers
- History of philosophy
- Seventeenth-century philosophy
- Eighteenth-century philosophy
- Feminist history of philosophy
- Mary Astell
- John Locke
- René Descartes
- History of ethical thought
- History of political thought
Network
Projects
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Extending New Narratives in the History of Philosophy
Shapiro, L., Broad, J., Mercer, C., Janiak, A., Deslauriers, M., Dyck, C., Pellegrin, M., Rey, A., Sheridan, P., Reuter, M., Detlefsen, K. & Nassar, D.
17/08/20 → 30/04/21
Project: Research
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The Philosophical Foundations of Women's Rights: A New History, 1600-1750
Broad, J., Brown, D. & Deslauriers, M.
1/04/19 → 31/03/22
Project: Research
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Women on liberty: from the early modern period to the enlightenment (1650-1800)
Broad, J., Green, K. & Detlefsen, K.
Australian Research Council (ARC)
2/01/14 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
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Mary Astell (1666-1731): An Historical-Intellectual Role Model for Women in Philosophy
Australian Research Council (ARC)
29/03/10 → 1/09/16
Project: Research
Research output
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Catharine Trotter Cockburn on the Virtue of Atheists
Broad, J., 2021, In : Intellectual History Review. 31, 1, p. 111-128 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open AccessFile -
Liberty, Women on
Broad, J., 19 Feb 2020, Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences. Jalobeanu, D. & Wolfe, C. T. (eds.). Cham Switzerland: Springer, 5 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Encyclopaedia / Dictionary Entry › Other
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Women Philosophers of Eighteenth-Century England: Selected Correspondence
Broad, J., 2020, Oxford UK: Oxford University Press. 304 p.Research output: Book/Report › Edited Book › Other › peer-review
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Damaris Masham on women and liberty of conscience
Broad, J., 2019, Feminist History of Philosophy: The Recovery and Evaluations of Women's Philosophical Thought. O'Neill, E. & Lascano, M. P. (eds.). Cham Switzerland: Springer, p. 319-336 18 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review
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Mary Astell’s critique of Pierre Bayle: atheism and intellectual integrity in the Pensées (1682)
Broad, J. S., 2019, In : British Journal for the History of Philosophy. 27, 4, p. 806-823 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Prizes
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Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
Broad, Jacqueline (Recipient), 2018
Prize: Election to learned society
Activities
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Cambridge University Press (Publisher)
Jacqueline Broad (Editor in chief)
2020 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial responsibility
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Hypatia (Journal)
Jacqueline Broad (Peer reviewer)
2020Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review responsibility
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Cambridge University Press (Publisher)
Jacqueline Broad (Peer reviewer)
2020Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review responsibility
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Journal of the American Philosophical Association (Journal)
Jacqueline Broad (Peer reviewer)
2020Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review responsibility
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British Journal for the History of Philosophy (Journal)
Jacqueline Broad (Peer reviewer)
2020Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review responsibility
Press / Media
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ProjectVox Revealing Voices: An Astell Pseudonym Uncovered
12/11/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Blogs, Podcasts and Social Media › Blogs
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APA Blog: Early Modern Philosophy - A Perverse Thought Experiment
21/10/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Blogs, Podcasts and Social Media › Blogs
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St Andrews Institute of Intellectual History interview series: Women Philosophers of Eighteenth-Century England
9/08/20
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Profile/Interview
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Monash Lens: Feminism and Philosophy in 17th-Century Britain
7/03/19
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Profile/Interview
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New Narratives in the History of Philosophy podcast: Interview on Mary Astell
1/07/18
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Blogs, Podcasts and Social Media › Podcasts