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Biography<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Professor<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1999<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Curriculum Vitae<\/a><\/span>
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Dan O\u2019Neill\u2019s research and teaching interests are principally in the history of political thought, particularly in the 18th<\/sup>\u00a0century.\u00a0He is especially interested in how issues crucial to that period continue to illuminate a range of contemporary theoretical problems, ranging from the meaning of democracy, conservatism, and feminism, to the politics of empire and imperialism.\u00a0 His publications include\u00a0Edmund Burke and the Conservative Logic of Empire<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(University of California Press, 2016);\u00a0The Burke-Wollstonecraft Debate: Savagery, Civilization, and Democracy<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(Penn State University Press, 2007); and\u00a0Illusion of Consent: Engaging with Carole Pateman<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Penn State University Press, 2008), co-edited with Mary Lyndon Shanley and Iris Marion Young. \u00a0Other work has appeared in such journals as\u00a0Political Theory, History of Political Thought,\u00a0<\/em>the\u00a0Journal of the History of Ideas, Polity,<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Review of Politics<\/em>, as well as a number of edited volumes.\u00a0 Together with Terence Ball, Richard Dagger, and Jennet Kirkpatrick, he is also co-author of the textbook\u00a0Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal<\/a><\/em>, and co-editor of its companion anthology of primary sources,\u00a0Ideals and Ideologies: A Reader<\/em><\/a>. The 12th edition of both books was published by Routledge in 2025. From 2017-2023 he was the Political Theory Editor and Book Review Editor for the flagship APSA journal Perspectives on Politics<\/a><\/em>, which he co-edited at UF along with Michael Bernhard. He is currently at work on a new book tentatively entitled Richard Rorty’s America: History, Democracy, and Hope.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n

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