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I am a political theorist working on a range of themes including the politics of satire and ridicule, the political thought of Edmund Burke, and the history of abolitionism. More recently I am also interested in the politics of future generations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I completed a BA in politics and philosophy at University College Dublin before leaving for England to complete a Masters degree in International Relations at the London School of Economics.  Following a brief period working in Brussels, I travelled to the United States on a Fulbright scholarship and received a doctorate in political science from Northwestern University in 2013 for a dissertation on the politics of enthusiasm in Shaftesbury, Hume, and Burke.  From 2009 to 2012 I served as Assistant Editor of Political Theory: an International Journal of Political Philosophy<\/em>. Before arriving at Dublin City University in 2023 I taught at the College of William and Mary in Virginia and the University of Exeter in the UK. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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I am a political theorist working on a range of themes including the politics of satire and ridicule, the political thought of Edmund Burke, and the history of abolitionism. More recently I am also interested in the politics of future generations. I completed a BA in politics and philosophy at University College Dublin before leaving for England to complete a Masters degree in International Relations at the London School of Economics.  Following a brief period working in Brussels, I travelled to the United States on a Fulbright scholarship and received a doctorate in political science from Northwestern University in 2013 for a dissertation on the politics of enthusiasm in Shaftesbury, Hume, and Burke.  From 2009 to 2012 I served as Assistant Editor of Political Theory: an International Journal of Political Philosophy. Before arriving at Dublin City University in 2023 I taught at the College of William and Mary in Virginia and the University of Exeter in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosscarroll.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosscarroll.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosscarroll.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosscarroll.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosscarroll.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/rosscarroll.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246,"href":"https:\/\/rosscarroll.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosscarroll.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}