Eric M. Nelson
| Eric M. Nelson | |
|---|---|
| Born |
August 13, 1977 New York, New York |
| Title | Robert M. Beren Professor of Government |
| Academic background | |
| Thesis title | The Greek Tradition in Early-Modern Republican Thought |
| Thesis year | 2002 |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Political philosophy, government |
| Sub discipline | Thomas Hobbes, American Revolution, English Revolution, Judaism and politics, republicanism, Age of Enlightenment, Hebrew republic |
Eric Nelson (born August 13, 1977) is an American historian and Professor of Government at Harvard University.
Eric Nelson was born in 1977 and grew up in New York City. According to Harvard Magazine, he went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art every week as a child.
Nelson attended Harvard College, where he was inducted to Phi Beta Kappa as a junior and graduated summa cum laude. His thesis, entitled The Reluctant Humanist: Thomas Hobbes and the Classical Historians won the Hoopes Prize, an award given for exceptional undergraduate theses. While at Harvard, he was a regular columnist for The Harvard Crimson, where he often wrote about the parallels between history and modern day.
After graduating from Harvard, he attended graduate school in the United Kingdom as a Marshall Scholar. Nelson earned an M.Phil. from Trinity College at the University of Cambridge in 2000, where he wrote a thesis on the Greek influence on English Republicanism. Two years later, he earned his Ph.D. from the same college at Cambridge.
Nelson is Jewish, and his grandparents were Holocaust survivors. He served as the Director of the Harvard Center for Jewish Studies from 2012 through 2015. He reads seven languages—English, Greek, Latin, Hebrew, French, Italian, and German—and speaks four of them.
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