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| Education and Background |
| A.B. and M.A. degrees from Johns Hopkins University and his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He also studied at Cambridge University as a Fulbright Fellow, has held several major fellowships, and was member of the Institute for Advanced Study. |
| Specialty |
Political Theory
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| Research |
His most recent work offers a series of perspectives on the problems of rights, liberty, and authority in early modern and contemporary political thought and jurisprudence.
His current and forthcoming research includes Rights in Contexts: The Historical and Political Construction of Moral and Legal Entitlements and From Reformation to Revolution: Western Political Thought from Luther through the American Revolution, as well as John Locke and the Politics of Religious Liberty and Ideology, Philosophy, and Politics: Political Theory and the Modern State.
They all follow his earlier work on patriarchal political thought and religious toleration in early-modern England. |
| Publications |
| He is the founding editor of Hebraic Political Studies, a journal devoted to the recovery of the uses of Biblical and rabbinic Hebrew writings in the history of political thought and a founder and member of the Steering committee of the Center for the History of British Political Thought at the Folger Shakespeare Library where these same intellectual interests have been pursued. Professor Schochet serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of the History of Ideas and Eighteenth-Century Thought and regularly reviews manuscripts for major journals in political science, political theory, and the history of ideas. |
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