Dr. Cécile Laborde

Biography

Cécile Laborde is a Professor of Political Theory at the University of Oxford, where she holds the Nuffield Chair in Political Theory. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and has published extensively on topics such as republicanism, liberalism, religion, and citizenship, with a focus on global justice. After obtaining her DPhil from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar in 1996, she has held permanent positions in political theory at the University of Exeter and King's College London, and served as an Associate Professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. In 2010-2011, she was a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Laborde has directed UCL’s Religion and Political Theory Centre, supported by an ERC grant, and has authored several significant works, including 'Pluralist Thought and the State in Britain and France' (2000), 'Critical Republicanism: The Hijab Controversy in Political Philosophy' (2008), and 'Liberalism’s Religion' (2017). She also convenes the Nuffield College political theory workshop.

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