Tulane Political Science – Martyn Thompson
   
   
  Tulane University  
  Department of Political Science  

UNDERGRADUATE

GRADUATE

COURSES

FACULTY

PUBLICATIONS

AFFILIATES

             
     
         
 

REGULAR FACULTY

Brian Brox
Mary Clark
Dana Zartner Falstrom
Thomas Langston
Nancy Maveety
Anthony Pereira
Gary Remer
Jeffrey Stacey
Ray Taras
Martyn Thompson
Mark Vail
1 Aaron Schneider
1 J. Celeste Lay*
1 Christopher Fettweis*
 
PROFESSOR OF
PRACTICE
Casey Kane Love

Gary Brooks*

 

VISITING FACULTY

Jillian Locke

Christopher Lawrence

Khaled Helmy
Alexander Vuving
 
ADJUNCT FACULTY
Lou Campomenosi
Rosalind Cook
Heidi Unter
Phuong Pham
Michael Sherman
 
*Effective July 1, 2008
 

Martyn Thompson

     
 

Associate Professor

Office: 322 Norman Mayer
Phone: (504) 862-8304
Email: mpt@tulane.edu
Office hours:
Fall Semester 2007
TR 3:30pm-4:30pm W 2:30pm-3:30pm

Courses:

Fall Semester 2007



 
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Research:
History of political thought, political philosophy, literature and politics.

Recent publications include:

Co-edited volumes:

2 volumes of Politisches Denken Jahrbuch ( Berlin: Duncker und Humblot, 2004, 2005).

4 volumes of Politisches Denken Jahrbuch ( Stuttgart und Weimar: J.B. Metzler, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003).

Articles:

"Intimations of Poetry in Practical Life," in: C. Abel and T. Fuller (eds.), The Legacy of Michael Oakeshott ( Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2005), pp. 256-67.

"Hobbes on Heresy," in: J. C. Laursen (ed.), Histories of Heresy, 1600-1800 ( New York: Palgrave, 2002), pp. 77-99.

Brief Intellectual Biographies:

3 intellectual biographies of "Daniel Defoe (1661-1731)," "Matthew Hale (1609-1676)," and "Peter Paxton, MD (d. 1711)" in: D. Rutherford (ed.), The Biographical Dictionary of British Economists ( Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2004).

35 intellectual biographies from "Richard Allestree (1619-1681)" to "Richard Zouche (1590-1661)," in: A. Pyle (ed.), The Dictionary of Seventeenth-Century British Philosophers, 2 vols. ( Bristol: Thoemmes, 2000).

Vita: Coming soon

Links:
International Conference for the Study of Political Thought (CSPT) (Prof. Thompson was president of CSPT from 1996 to 2003, and remains on the organization's Executive and Planning Committees)

Michael Oakeshott Association (Prof. Thompson is vice president and president-elect)

Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Erforschung des Politischen Denkens (Prof. Thompson founded this interdisciplinary German-speaking organization in 1989 and is a member of the governing board)