Eileen Hunt Botting

Thomas J. and Robert T. Rolfs Associate Professor of Political Science
Department of Political Science
Director, Gender Studies Program

Degrees

B.A., Bowdoin College; B.A., Cambridge University; Ph.D., Yale University

Research Profile

Botting specializes in Enlightenment, feminist, and American political thought. She is the author of Family Feuds: Wollstonecraft, Burke, and Rousseau on the Transformation of the Family (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2006) and the co-editor, with Jill Locke, of Feminist Interpretations of Alexis de Tocqueville (Penn State, 2008).  She has published several articles on philosophical discourse on the family and women's rights from the late eighteenth century to the present in journals such as the American Political Science Review and the American Journal of Political Science. Botting is currently writing a book entitled Inventing Feminisms: Wollstonecraft, Mill, and the Rise of Women's Activism.  She is also co-editing, with Sarah Houser, a scholarly edition of Hannah Mather Crocker's Reminiscences and Traditions of Boston for the New England Historic Genealogical Society Press.

Contact Information

325 O'Shaughnessy Hall
631-0495
ehunt@nd.edu