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Associate Professor of Political Theory Research: My focus is in history of political thought and political theory. In particular, I am interested in • early modern political thought and moral philosophy • philosophy of history • theories of patriotism, nationalism, cosmopolitanism • theories and justifications of humanitarian intervention and human rights • the development and justifications of the Responsibility to Protect • the intellectual history of the self-determination of peoples • meta-theoretical issues in political theory (contextualism, realism, etc.) • methodological issues in studying history of political thought E-mail: eva.piirimae[at]ut.ee
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
• Philosophy of History • Introduction to Political Philosophy • Political Liberty • Democratic Peace: Immanuel Kant’s Perpetual Peace in Historical and Contemporary Philosophical Context • Political Theory • Political Theory Classics • Problems and Debates in 20th-Century Political Theory • Political Theory and Ethics (MA level, in English) • Sovereignty and World Order (MA level, together with Eiki Berg, in English) • The Idea of Europe (MA level, in English) • Philosophical Disagreements (PhD level, together with Kadri Simm et al., in English) • Political Theory (doctoral exam, in English)
Publications (selection)
Herder on Empathy and Sympathy, ed. Eva Piirimäe, Johannes Schmidt and Liina Lukas (Studies in Intellectual History) (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming).
Piirimäe, E., ‘Sissejuhatus’ (Eng: Introduction), in Johann Gottfried Herder, Mõtteid inimkonna ajaloo filosoofiast (the complete Estonian translation of Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit) (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., ‘Human Rights, Imperialism and Peace among Nations: Herder’s Debate with Kant’, Intellectual History Archive 2, 2018 (published keynote lecture from the conference Inclusion and Exclusion in the History of Ideas, Helsinki, 14-15 December 2017.
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.
Piirimäe, E., ‘Keeleline pööre’ [Eng: ‘Linguistic turn], Humanitaarteaduste metodoloogia. Uusi väljavaateid, ed. Marek Tamm (Tallinn: Tallinn University Press, 2011), 33-58.
Piirimäe, E., ‘Monarchisms, Republicanisms, and Enlightenments’, History of European Ideas 36(1) (2010), 125-129.
Piirimäe, E., ‘Dying for the Fatherland: Thomas Abbt’s Theory of Aesthetic Patriotism’, History of European Ideas 35 (2009), 194-208.
Piirimäe, E. (ed. and introd.) Rahvuslus ja patriotism. Valik kaasaegseid filosoofilisi võtmetekste. [Eng: Nationalism and Patriotism. A Selection of Key Contemporary Philosophical Texts] (Tartu: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, 2009).
Piirimäe, E., ‘Teoreetilisi perspektiive 19. sajandi eesti rahvusluse uurimiseks’ [Eng: ‘Theoretical Perspectives on the Study of Estonian Nationalism in the 19th century’], Eesti Ajalooarhiivi toimetised = Acta et commentationes Archivi Historici Estoniae 16/23 (2009) (=Vene Impeerium ja Baltikum: venestus, rahvuslus ja moderniseerimine 19. sajandi teisel poolel ja 20. sajandi alguses, ed. Tõnu Tannberg and Bradley Woodworth), 167-191.
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

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