Julie E. Cooper is Associate Professor in the Political Science Department at Tel Aviv University, where she also directs the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism. She works at the intersection of political theory and Jewish studies. Her research interests include the history of political theory; early modern political theory (especially Hobbes and Spinoza); secularism and secularization; Jewish political thought; and modern Jewish thought. She is the author of Secular Powers: Humility in Modern Political Thought (Chicago, 2013) and the co-editor, with Samuel H. Brody, of The King is in the Field: Essays in Modern Jewish Political Thought (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023). She has been awarded fellowships from the School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study and The Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. She is currently working on a book project which traces the intellectual genealogy of "autonomist" political thought within modern Jewish nationalism, from Simon Dubnow to contemporary Israel.

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