Graeme Garrard

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Graeme Garrard (born 1965) is a Canadian political theorist and writer. He is Professor of Politics at Cardiff University in the UK.

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Life and career

Garrard was born to British parents in Toronto, Canada and educated at Trinity College, Toronto, before attending Balliol College, Oxford for his DPhil degree in Political Thought. His doctoral dissertation, supervised by Sir Larry Siedentop and Sir Isaiah Berlin, was on the place of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Joseph de Maistre in The Counter-Enlightenment. [1]

He has taught the history of political thought and political philosophy at Cardiff University in the UK since 1994. He has been a visiting associate professor at Dartmouth College and Williams College in the USA, and was an instructor in government at the Harvard Summer School in Cambridge, Massachusetts from 2006 to 2018. He taught for a term at The American University of Paris in 2004, and in 2013 was a visiting fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge.

Garrard is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society [2] and a Fellow of The Learned Society of Wales. [3]

As an undergraduate he served in the Royal Canadian Navy from 1985-1990 under the University Naval Training Division (UNTD) programme. He was a member of the ship's company of the ‘stone frigate’ HMCS York in Toronto throughout this period. He left the Naval Reserve with the final rank of Lieutenant (Navy).

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References

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  2. "Current Fellows and Members | RHS". royalhistsoc.org. Retrieved 2020-12-29.
  3. learnedsociety.wales https://www.learnedsociety.wales/fellow/graeme-garrard/ . Retrieved 2024-04-25.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. "Return of the State | Yale University Press".