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Dr. Brian Smith is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at NU. He received his PhD in Political Science from Boston University.
Dr. Smith's scholarly interests lie in intellectual history and political theory. He is the author of two books: John Locke, Territory, and Transmigration (Routledge 2021) and A History of Military Morals: Killing the Innocent (Brill 2022). He has published over two dozen articles which can be found in the Journal of the History of Philosophy, Global Intellectual History, Modern Intellectual History, Seventeenth Century, Citizenship Studies, History of Political Thought, Polity, Science and Society, Locke Studies, Philosophy and Literature, and elsewhere.
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John Locke, Travel Literature, and the Sexuality of ‘Others’
Smith, B., 2026, International Archives of the History of Ideas/Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees. Springer Nature, p. 63-86 24 p. (International Archives of the History of Ideas/Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees; vol. 254).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Expanding Morgan Godwyn’s Corpus: Rethinking the Evolution of Early Modern Anti-Slavery Sentiment
Smith, B., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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JOHN LOCKE’S ROYAL AFRICAN COMPANY AND BAHAMAS ADVENTURER SLAVE STOCK
Smith, B., 2025, In: History of Political Thought. 46, 2, p. 259-284 26 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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FROM ASCRIPTIVE TO PARTICIPATORY CITIZENSHIP: SOCIAL CONFLICT, POLITICAL BELONGING, AND THE LIBERAL NATION-STATE
Alyukov, M., Erpyleva, S., Colinas, J., Lomonosov, M. & Smith, B., 2024, In: Drustvena Istrazivanja. 33, 1, p. 31-52 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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“Bondage by Degree: From Chattel to Wage Slavery in Seventeenth-Century English Thought”
Smith, B., 2024, In: Global Intellectual History.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review