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Official Fellow and Tutor in Politics, New College, Oxford ;

University Lecturer in Politics, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford;

Address: New College, Holywell Street, Oxford, OX1 3BN, UK, elizabeth.frazer@new.ox.ac.uk  tel: 44 1865 279516 ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­



Curriculum Vitae

Qualifications

BA (Hons) Philosophy, Politics and Economics (1st class), Oxford l984

D Phil Sociology, Oxford l987

 

Academic Career

Pembroke College, Oxford

BA Politics Philosophy and Economics, 1981-1984

D Phil (ESRC Studentship) 1984-1987

 

New College, Oxford

Rank Manning Junior Research Fellow, 1987-1990

Official Fellow and Tutor in Politics, 1990-date

 

University of Oxford

 Lecturer in Politics, 1990-date

 

Administrative Positions

Chairwoman, Oxford University Women’s Studies Committee, 1989-1994; Convenor 1996-date

Dean, New College, 1990-1994

Chairwoman, Sub-Faculty of Politics 1998-1999

Director of Research Training, Department of Politics, 1999-2003

Chairwoman, Department of Politics, Political Theory Panel 1992-1994, 1995-1997, 2005-date


 

Work in Progress

1. A series of papers on the broad themes of ‘what politics ought to be’ and ‘political virtue’ by way of critical study of the thought of figures including Max Weber, Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, and also Rousseau and Wollstonecraft.

 

2. With Kim Hutchings, LSE, a series of papers on the theme of political violence and its justification, including critical study of Machiavelli, Clausewitz, Weber, Schmitt, Arendt,  de Beauvoir, Merleau Ponty, Fanon, Sartre, Derrida, as well as just war theorists and feminist critics of violence.

 

3. ‘Shakespeare and the Political Way’ - a study of the theme of political virtue as envisioned in Shakespeare’s dramas.

 

4. With Sophie Duchesne and Florence Haegel (Cevipof, Paris) and Jean-Paul Frognier (University of Louvain) a project (called ‘How Discussion Becomes Political) producing and analysing citizens’ conflictual political discussion on the subject of european membership.  This project is funded by Leverhulme Trust, the Ministere Delegue a la Recherche, Action Concertee Initiative, France, and the University of Louvain: 

Project Website:  http://oxpo.politics.ox.ac.uk/projects/index.asp.

Conference, Oxford, June 23 2008: European Citizenship revisited. 

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Main Publications

 

Mary Wollstonecraft on Politics and Friendshipin Political Studies Vol 56 no.1 March 2008 pp.237-256

 

Elizabeth Frazer and Kimberly Hutchings, ‘On Politics and Violence: Arendt contra Fanon’  Contemporary Political Theory vol 7 no.1  February 2008 pp. 90-108: winner of the Contemporary Political Theory prize for the 2008 volume

 

Max Weber on Ethics and Politics’ in Politics and Ethics Review Vol 2 no.1 Spring 2006 pp 19-37

 

Sex Differences in Political Knowledge in Britain  with Ken Macdonald in Political Studies vol 51 no.1 March 2003

' "Probably the most public occasion the world has ever known": public and private in press coverage of the death and funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales' in Journal of Political Ideologies vol 5 pp201-223 2000

'Citizenship Education: Anti-Political Culture and Political Education in Britain' Political Studies vol 48 pp88-103 2000.  Abridged version published in Education for Democracy: Contexts, Curricula, Assessments  Walter C Parker (ed) Greenwich Ct: Information Age Publishing 2002;  abridged version published in Andrew Lockyer, Bermard Crick and John Annette (eds) Education for Democratic Citizenship: issues of theory of practice Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003

The Problems of Communitarian Politics: Unity and Conflict: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999 [Preface and Introduction] Available on line at http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/content/politicalscience/0198295642/toc.html

Elizabeth Frazer and Nicola Lacey (1993): The Politics of Community: a Feminist Critique of the Liberal Communitarian Debate, Harvester Wheatsheaf, Hemel Hempstead

Elizabeth Frazer, Jennifer Hornsby, Sabina Lovibond, (eds) (1993) Ethics: a Feminist Reader Blackwell, Oxford

Feminist Talk and Talking about Feminism: teenage girls' discourses of gender". Oxford Review of Education vol 15 1989

Cameron,Deborah; Frazer,Elizabeth (1989): "Knowing What to Say: the Construction of Gender in Linguistic Practice". In: Social Anthropology and the Politics of Language. Sociological Review Monograph 36. (Ed: Grillo,Ralph) Routledge, London

"Teenage Girls Talking About Class". Sociology Vol 22 1988

 Deborah Cameron and Elizabeth Frazer, (1987): The Lust to Kill: a feminist investigation of sexual murder. Polity Press, Cambridge.


EDITORIAL BOARDS

Oxford Review of Education (Taylor and Francis) Electronic copies (includes special issue on Political Education edited by EJF Vol 25 March 1999)

Journal of Political Ideologies (Taylor and Francis, Oxford  )Electronic copies  (includes Vol 5 June 2000 which includes ‘Probably the most public occasion.....’)

Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (Frank Cass, London) http://www.frankcass.com/jnls

International Journal of Citizenship and Teacher Education (CitizED, Teacher Training Agency)  http://www.citized.info/ijcte/http://www.citized.info/ijcte/

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Department of Politics & International Relations, University of  Oxford

University of Oxford On Line Media Guide

Oxford Women in Politics

New College Choir

New Chamber Opera

 


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