Eero Arum
I specialize in the history of political thought, especially Renaissance and early modern political philosophy. My core research interests lie in the early modern theory of popular sovereignty and its critics, Renaissance absolutism, and political theology. I also have a longstanding interest in Aristotle, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Jean Bodin.
My research has been published or is forthcoming in American Political Science Review, Political Theory, History of Political Thought, The Review of Politics, and The Cambridge History of Democracy, Vol. 2: The Middle Ages and Early Modern Period.
Before beginning my graduate studies, I received my B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science from the University of Chicago (2018), then taught English as a second language through Fulbright Austria's USTA Program (2018-2020). I currently hold a predoctoral fellowship from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD).
"Jean Bodin's Demonic Constitutionalism: Sovereignty, Natural Law, and Political Theology," with Gio Maria Tessarolo, American Political Science Review (forthcoming).
"Absolute Democracy: Bodin and Hobbes," with Kinch Hoekstra. In The Cambridge History of Democracy, Vol. 2: The Middle Ages and Early Modern Period, edited by Sophie Smith and Markku Peltonen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (forthcoming).