Alison McQueen

At CASBS, Alison McQueen will complete a book manuscript on treason and political betrayal centered on the 1649 trial and execution of King Charles I of England. The book uses this unprecedented legal moment to explore how ideas of loyalty, obligation, and betrayal have shaped the moral imagination of modern politics.  

McQueen is the Nehal and Jenny Fan Raj Civics Faculty Fellow in Undergraduate Teaching and an associate professor in the departments of political science and (by courtesy) history at Stanford University. Her research focuses on early modern political theory and the history of international relations thought. 

McQueen’s book, Political Realism in Apocalyptic Times (Cambridge University Press, 2018), traces the responses of three canonical political realists—Niccolò Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, and Hans Morgenthau—to hopes and fears about the end of the world. A second completed book manuscript, Absolving God: Hobbes’s Scriptural Politics, tracks and explains changes in Thomas Hobbes’s strategies of Scriptural argument over time.  

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