Political Science Faculty

Nasser Behnegar

Associate Professor

Director of Graduate Studies

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Nasser Behnegar

Ph.D.

Contact

McGuinn Hall Room 333

Telephone: 617-552-1897

Email: nasser.behnegar@bc.edu

Education

  • B.A., University of Chicago
  • M.A., University of Chicago
  • Ph.D, University of Chicago

Research Interests

Foundations of liberalism, the relation between religion and politics, the foundations of the social sciences.

Curriculum Vitae

Biography

Nasser Behnegar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at md传媒国产剧 College. He received his M.A. in economics and Ph.D. from the Committee on Social Thought of the University of Chicago. The themes of his research include the foundations of liberalism, the relation between religion and politics, and the foundations of the social sciences.

He is the author of Leo Strauss, Max Weber, and the Scientific Study of Politics (University of Chicago Press, 2003), and is currently working on a book-length study of the liberalism of John Locke.听He teaches courses on classical and early modern political philosophy, Islamic political philosophy, Shakespeare's political thought, and Nietzsche.

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