Matthew Anderson

In 2013-2016 I completed a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Commerce at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. I majored in History and Marketing.

In 2018 I completed a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) at Deakin. My dissertation was titled Constituent Power in Modern Constitutionalism.

In 2021-2024 I completed my PhD at Deakin. My dissertation was titled Stoicism in Michel de Montaigne and Francis Bacon.

I worked at Deakin from 2021-2025 in both teaching and research roles. I ran seminars on intellectual history and ethics, served as a research assistant on a project investigating the history of academic assessment, and as a research fellow on a project analysing constituent power and popular sovereignty in written national constitutions. My work on this latter project was a contribution towards the ARC-funded Discovery Project (DP220100967) Constituent Power in Federal Constitutions.

I started at Monash in 2025 as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the ARC-funded Discovery Project (DP220100002) Toward a Female Stoic Tradition: Women's Writings in England, 1600-1800.

I am broadly interested in intellectual history and the history of philosophy, with a particular focus on ethics, political philosophy and philosophy of law.

My work on political and legal philosophy is primarily concerned with issues relating to sovereignty and constituent power. I'm currently working on an examination of how popular sovereignty operates in written constitutions and what normative implications this may have.

My work on ethics focuses on the history of Stoicism, especially during the European Renaissance. My current research is on Marie de Gournay's engagement with Stoicism, which is linked to my previous doctoral work on Stoicism in the writings of both Michel de Montaigne and Francis Bacon.