Samuel Harrison
Sam Harrison is a PhD candidate in Political Thought at Emmanuel College, supervised by Dr Sylvana Tomaselli. He is working on the evolution of the concept of citizenship in the course of the French Revolution.
He previously completed his BA and his MPhil in Political Thought and Intellectual History in the Cambridge History Faculty. He is currently also a visiting scholar at Sciences Po.
The intellectual history of citizenship
The political thought of the French Revolution
The concept of dignity in political theory
T2. History of Political thought c.1700-c.1890
Historical Argument and Practice
Power and Knowledge from the 18th century to today, 24-26 November 2022. ‘Citizenship as a “technology of government” in revolutionary France’.
ISIH ECR workshop, Autocracy, Revolution, and Republicanism (1789-1945), 24 November 2022. ‘Autocratic citizenship under the First French Empire’.
University of Leeds Graduate Political Theory Conference. 16 September 2022. ‘Towards a political concept of dignity’.
Turin Humanities Programme Summer School, Enlightenment legacy: the rights of man in a global perspective. 1-3 September 2022. ‘The Duties of Man and the Citizen: the Enlightenment’s lost legacy’.
13th Annual London Graduate Conference in the History of Political Thought. 30 June-1 July 2022. ‘Between Masses and Masters: Liminal Classes in 18th-Century France’.
3rd Annual Stanford Graduate Conference in Political Theory. 22-23 April 2022. ‘Towards a political concept of dignity’.
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Key publications
Harrison, Samuel. 'Mahomet au temps de Voltaire: Les Lumières face à l’Islam 1730-1830'. Global Intellectual History (2024). 10.1080/23801883.2024.2314065
Harrison, Samuel. ‘The Concept of Dignity in Edmund Burke’s Writings on the French Revolution’. British Journal for the History of Philosophy 0, no. 0 (2023): 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2023.2272258.