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Teaching, including
lecture notes
updated 17xi09
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
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, 2009-10
Chairwoman, Department of Politics, Political Theory Panel
1992-1994, 1995-1997, 2005-date
Tutor for Undergraduate Admissions, New College, 2009-date
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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‘Mary Wollstonecraft on Politics and
Friendship’ in 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.
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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