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Benjamin Lynerd

Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Chicago, 2009

Phone: 312-413-2186
Fax: 312-413-0440
E-Mail: blynerd@uic.edu

Vitae

Fields of Interest:
Political theory; History of political thought, particularly in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries; Theology and politics; Moral philosophy; Comparative theories of the self; Natural rights tradition; Scottish Enlightenment; Early American political thought

Scholarship:
Republican Theology, book project in progress that surveys
the political theology of American evangelicals from the founding through the early twenty-first century

"John Owen and the Theological Foundations of Religious Liberty," Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, April 2011

"Republican Theology, Liberty, and Moral Reform," Conference on Religion in Society, Chicago, IL, February 2011, submitted for publication in the International Journal of Religion and Society

"Calvin and Locke on the Individual," Midwest PSA Annual Conference, Chicago, April 2009; and at the Political Theory Workshop, University of Chicago, January 2009

"Witherspoon in Scotland and America," Institute for Constitutional Studies, George Washington University, June 2008

Awards & Fellowships:
Graduate Fellow, Jack Miller Summer Institute, University of Virginia, June 2009
Harvey Fellow, Mustard Seed Foundation, 2007-2009
Graduate Fellow, Center for the Study of the Principles of the American Founding, 2007-08

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