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'''Eric Matthew Nelson''' (born August 13, 1977) is an American historian and Professor of Government at [[Harvard University]].

==Biography==
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.<ref name="harvardmagazine.com">{{cite web|url=http://harvardmagazine.com/2012/01/eric-nelsons-political-theory|title=Eric Nelson|date=16 December 2011|website=Harvardmagazine.com|accessdate=6 November 2017}}</ref>

Nelson attended [[Harvard College]], where he was inducted to [[Phi Beta Kappa]] as a junior and graduated [[summa cum laude]].<ref name="harvard.edu"/> His thesis, entitled ''The Reluctant Humanist: Thomas Hobbes and the Classical Historians'' won the [[Thomas T. Hoopes, Class of 1919, Prize|Hoopes Prize]], an award given for exceptional undergraduate [[thesis|theses]].<ref name="thecrimson.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2010/6/16/nelson-professor-hobbes-government/|title=Eric Nelson Granted Tenure in Government Dept. - News - The Harvard Crimson|website=Thecrimson.com|accessdate=6 November 2017}}</ref> While at Harvard, he was a regular columnist for ''[[The Harvard Crimson]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/writer/421/Eric_M._Nelson/|title=Eric M. Nelson - Writer Profile - The Harvard Crimson|website=Thecrimson.com|accessdate=6 November 2017}}</ref> 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 Scholarship|Marshall Scholar]].<ref name="thecrimson.com"/> Nelson earned an [[Master of Philosophy|M.Phil.]] from [[Trinity College, Cambridge|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 [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] from the same college at Cambridge.

Nelson is [[Jewish]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1998/4/6/how-jewish-is-too-jewish-pbab/|title=How Jewish Is 'Too Jewish'? - Opinion - The Harvard Crimson|website=Thecrimson.com|accessdate=6 November 2017}}</ref> and his [[grandparent]]s were [[Sh'erit ha-Pletah|Holocaust survivors]]. He served as the Director of the Harvard Center for Jewish Studies from 2012 through 2015. He reads seven languages—[[English language|English]], [[Greek language|Greek]], [[Latin]], [[Hebrew]], [[French language|French]], [[Italian language|Italian]], and [[German language|German]]—and speaks four of them.<ref name="thecrimson.com"/><ref name="harvardmagazine.com"/>

==Career==
After earning his Ph.D., Nelson taught for another year at Cambridge before returning to Harvard as a [[Harvard Society of Fellows|Junior Fellow]] in 2004. By 2009, he was named the Frederick S. Danziger Associate Professor of Government, and was granted [[Academic tenure|tenure]] just one year later at the age of 32.<ref name="thecrimson.com"/> In 2014, he was named the Robert M. Beren Professor of Government. He has also been awarded fellowships by the [[Guggenheim Fellowship|John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation]] and the [[American Council of Learned Societies]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://scholar.harvard.edu/ericnelson/|title=Eric Nelson|website=Scholar.harvard.edu|accessdate=6 November 2017}}</ref>

He has published four books since returning to Harvard and is working on a fifth that will explore theology and contemporary liberal philosophy.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://scholar.harvard.edu/ericnelson|title=Eric Nelson|website=Scholar.harvard.edu|accessdate=6 November 2017}}</ref>

Nelson has taught classes at Harvard that cover topics including [[Thomas Hobbes]], the [[American Revolution]], the [[English Revolution]], [[Judaism and politics|Jewish political tradition]], [[monarchy]], [[republicanism]], and [[Age of Enlightenment|the Enlightenment]].

According to [[Diana Muir]], Nelson is "one of a group of scholars engaged in the enterprise of re-evaluating the origins of modern political theory".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/content/module/2012/2/6/main-feature/1/the-dangerous-mr-nelson|title=Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features » The Dangerous Mr. Nelson|website=Jewishideasdaily.com|accessdate=6 November 2017}}</ref> According to Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, Nelson's ''Hebrew Republic'' "demonstrates unforgettably that we need to understand piety to comprehend politics."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tnr.com/book/review/modern-times|title=Modern Times|website=Tnr.com|accessdate=6 November 2017}}</ref>

Nelson, along with [[Harry R. Lewis|Harry Lewis]], [[Margo Seltzer]], and [[Richard F. Thomas|Richard Thomas]], wrote an [[op-ed]] expressing their opposition to Harvard's proposed policy to ban members of final clubs and other [[Officially unrecognized Harvard College social clubs|officially unrecognized social clubs]] from holding captaincies or receiving endorsements for top fellowships.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2016/9/13/against-values-tests/|title=No Values Tests - Opinion - The Harvard Crimson|website=Thecrimson.com|accessdate=6 November 2017}}</ref>

==Books==
* ''The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought,'' (Cambridge University Press, 2004)
* ''The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought,'' Harvard University Press (2010), which received the 2012 [[Laura Shannon Prize]] in Contemporary European Studies and was a Choice outstanding academic title of 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674050587|title=Search Results - Harvard University Press|website=Hup.harvard.edu|accessdate=6 November 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://nanovic.nd.edu/shannon-prize/recipients/ |title=Recipients // Nanovic Institute // University of Notre Dame |accessdate=2013-08-18 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130721055731/http://nanovic.nd.edu/shannon-prize/recipients/ |archivedate=2013-07-21 }}</ref>
* Editor of [[Hobbes]]'s translations of the Iliad and Odyssey for the ''Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes,'' (The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2008).
* ''The Royalist Revolution: Monarchy and the American Founding'' (Belknap Press, an imprint of Harvard University Press, October 2014)
* ''The Theology of Liberalism'' (Harvard University Press, 2019)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Luban |first1=Daniel |title=Among the Post-Liberals |journal=Dissent |date=2020 |volume=67 |issue=1 |pages=162–170 |doi=10.1353/dss.2020.0011 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/746006/summary |language=en |issn=1946-0910}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Moyn |first1=Samuel |title=Rawls & Theodicy |url=https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/rawls-theodicy |accessdate=23 April 2020 |work=[[Commonweal Magazine]] |date=30 October 2019}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100204215524/http://www.gov.harvard.edu/about-department/faculty-staff-directory/eric-nelson Eric M. Nelson]

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