Biographical Statement
Mira Morgenstern is Professor of Political Science at the City College of New York (CUNY). She specializes in eighteenth-century political theory, feminist thought, religion and politics, and biblical political theory. Besides her work on Rousseau (Rousseau and the Politics of Ambiguity and other essays), her writings include “Religion and State: The View From Enlightenment,” (Journal of Law, Religion and State); Conceiving a Nation: the Development of Political Discourse in the Hebrew Bible (Penn State Press 2009); and the recently-published Reframing Politics in the Hebrew Bible (Hackett 2018). Her latest work is co-authored with Barbara Abrams and Karen Sullivan and is entitled Crossing the Border: Text, Identity, and Polity in Rousseau’s Le Lévite d’Ephraïm (in process at OUSE). Mira Morgenstern is currently working on a study of social contract theory.
