Eva Piirimäe
Associate Professor of Political Theory Research:
E-mail: eva.piirimae[at]ut.ee |
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Education | |
2006 | PhD (History) University of Cambridge |
2000 | MPhil (Intellectual History and Political Thought) University of Cambridge |
1999 | MA (History) (cum laude) University of Tartu |
1997 | BA (History, Philosophy, Semiotics) (cum laude) University of Tartu |
Academic career | |
Since 2016 | Associate Professor of Political Theory Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu |
01/12/2016-31/05/2017 | Visiting Associate Professor in European Studies The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale |
01/09-31/11/2016 | Visiting research scholar Center for European Studies at Harvard University |
2014-2015 | Associate Professor of Political Theory Institute of Government and Politics, University of Tartu |
2009-2014 | Senior researcher in Political Philosophy Institute of Government and Politics, University of Tartu |
2007-2009 | Estonian Science Foundation post-doctoral researcher Department of Politics and Government, University of Tartu |
2005-2006 | Extraordinary researcher Department of Philosophy, University of Tartu |
Academic service | |
Since 2019 | Associate Editor, History of European Political and Constitutional Thought book series at Brill |
Since 2019 | Member of the editorial board, Bibliotheca Philosophica, Tallinn University Press |
2014-2019 | Member of the Estonian Research Council Expert Panel on Social Sciences and Culture |
2010-2016 | Head of the Humanities’ Council Publishing Committee of the University of Tartu |
Organisational membership | |
International Herder Society | |
European Society for the History of Political Thought | |
AABS | |
Courses taught | |
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Publications (selection) | |
Human Rights and Their Realisation in the World: Herder’s Debate with Kant“, in: Passions, Politics and the Limits of Society, ed. Heikki Haara and Koen Stapelbroek (series: Helsinki Yearbook of Intellectual History) (DeGruyter). | |
Piirimäe, E., ‘Introduction: Historicism, Stoicism and Contemporary Perspectives’, in: Herder on Sympathy and Empathy/ Sympathie und Einfühlung im Denken Herders, ed. Eva Piirimäe, Liina Lukas and Johannes Schmidt (series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History) (Leiden: Brill, 2020), 1-33. | |
Herder on Sympathy and Empathy/ Sympathie und Einfühlung im Denken Herders, ed. Eva Piirimäe, Liina Lukas and Johannes Schmidt (series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History) (Leiden: Brill, 2020). | |
Piirimäe, E., ‘Sissejuhatus’, Johann Gottfried Herder, Mõtteid inimkonna ajaloo filosoofiast (Tartu: Ilmamaa, 2019). | |
Piirimäe, E., ‘Sovereignty, Self-Determination, and Human Rights from Walzer to the Responsibility to Protect’, Global Responsibility to Protect, 4 (October: 2018), 393−419. | |
Piirimäe, E., ‘State-Machines, Commerce and the Progress of Humanität in Europe. Herder’s Response to Kant in Ideas for the Philosophy of History of Mankind, in: Commerce and Peace in the Enlightenment, edited by Béla Kapossy, Isaac Nakhimovsky and Richard Whatmore (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 155-191. | |
Piirimäe, E. 'Herder, Berlin and the Counter-Enlightenment', Eighteenth-Century Studies 49:1 (2015), 71-76. | |
Piirimäe, E. and A. Schmidt, 'Introduction: Between Morality and Anthropology - Sociability in Enlightenment Thought', History of European Ideas (special issue: Sociability in Enlightenment Thought, ed. E. Piirimäe and A. Schmidt) 41:5 (2015), 571-588. | |
Piirimäe, E., 'Philosophy, Sociability and Modern Patriotism: Young Herder between Rousseau and Abbt', History of European Ideas (special issue: Sociability in Enlightenment Thought, ed. E. Piirimäe and A. Schmidt) 41:5 (2015), 640-661. | |
Piirimäe, E., 'Sociability, Nationalism, and Cosmopolitanism in Herder's Early Philosophy of History', History of Political Thought XXXVI: 3 (2015), 521-559. | |
Piirimäe, E., ‘Herder and Cosmopolitanism’, Critique of Cosmopolitan Reason: Timing and Spacing the Concept of World Citizenship, ed. Rebecka Lettevall and Kristian Petrov (Berlin et al.; Peter Lang Verlag, 2014. | |
Textbook chapters | |
Piirimäe, E., ‘Eetika rahvusvahelistes suhetes’ (Eng: Ethics in International Relations), in: Berg, E.; Ehin, P.; Kasekamp, A.; Mälksoo, M.; Piirimäe, E.; Toomla, R.; Toomla, R. (2018). Sissejuhatus rahvusvahelistesse suhetesse (Eng: Introduction to International Relations), (Tartu: University of Tartu Press, 2018), 149-177. | |
Piirimäe, E., ‘Rahu ja selle saavutamise teed’ (Eng: International peace), in: Berg, E.; Ehin, P.; Kasekamp, A.; Mälksoo, M.; Piirimäe, E.; Toomla, R.; Toomla, R. (2018). Sissejuhatus rahvusvahelistesse suhetesse (Eng: Introduction to International Relations), (Tartu: University of Tartu Press, 2018), 275-296. | |
Grants, honours, awards | |
2019 | Finalist, Teacher of the Year (“University Lecturer” category), Estonian Ministry of Science and Education competition |
2011-2014 | Grant holder of ETF research grant No 8887 “Liberal loyalties and Cosmopolitan Commitments. Historical and Contemporary Perspectives” |
2008-2010 | Grant holder of ETF research grant No 7584 “The Philosophical Genesis of German nationalism (1750-1815)” |
2006 | Scholarship of Volkswagen Foundation |
2004 | Scholarship of Global Estonian Central Council |
2003 | Prince Consort Foundation Studentship Award, Cambridge University |
2000 | Honorary scholar of British Overseas' Trust |
2000-2004 | Benefactors' Scholar, StJohn's College, Cambridge |
1999/2000 | FCO/ Soros foundation scholarship |
1997 | I prize at the student theses' competition at the Estonian Academy of Sciences |
1997 | The prize of Estonian Knighthood for the BA thesis |
Supervision of PhD students:
- Juhan Saharov, Reason and Rhetoric in the Estonian Political Thought, 1986-1991
- Kadi-Kähar-Peterson, The Progress of Humanity - Europe and the Baltic Provinces: Garlieb Merkel's (1769-1850) Ideas in the Context of European Theories of Civilization (co-supervised by Pärtel Piirimäe)
- Semyon Reshenin, The Free Play of Imagination in Kant and Schiller