Associate Professor
Peter Josephson is Associate Professor of Politics at Saint Anselm College, where he helped to design the major in International Relations. He co-chairs Saint Anselm’s program for Education in Liberty and the Liberal Arts. He teaches in the Politics, Humanities, and Philosophy departments, and is Program Director of the Civic Leadership Academy at the College’s New Hampshire Institute of Politics. From 2005 to 2008 he served as the NHIOP’s Academic Advisor.
Josephson was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska. He received his B.A. in Russian and Soviet Studies from Oberlin College, his M.A. from the University of New Hampshire, and holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Boston College. He taught political theory and international relations for four years at the University of New Hampshire, and is a recipient of the Boston College Excellence in Teaching Award. His research has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Earhart Foundation and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. Josephson is the author of The Great Art of Government: Locke's Use of Consent, as well as works on the law of nature, politics and literature, and the writings of Henry Kissinger. His current research compares ancient and modern philosophers as they describe the nature of political life.
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