Theodore Christov
Visiting Assistant Professor
PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
Theodore Christov received a classical Great Books education at Thomas Aquinas College, California, and holds an MTS degree from Harvard and a PhD from UCLA. His research focuses on historically inflected political theory, with a special emphasis on early modern theories of international relations. His manuscript, "Leviathans Tamed: Political Theory and International Relations in Early Modern Political Thought," examines the centrality of debates about inter-state relations in the formation of modern liberal political theory. He has published essays on Hobbes and international thought, Vattel and the liberal state, and is preparing a contribution in a forthcoming volume on Freedom and the Construction of Europe, edited by Quentin Skinner and Martin van Gelderen. At Northwestern, he will be teaching courses on international political theory, political theories of empire, early modern political thought, and classical theories of international relations.