Jennifer Pitts is a political theorists whose research interests lie in the fields of modern political and international thought, particularly the histories of empire, international law, and debates over global justice. She is the author of Boundaries of the International (Harvard 2018), which explores European debates over legal relations with extra-European societies during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the co-editor, with Adom Getachew, of W.E.B. Du Bois, International Thought, a collection of essays and speeches spanning the years 1900-1956 (Cambridge University Press, 2022). With Dan Edelstein she has edited a volume in the forthcoming Cambridge History of Rights. She is also author of A Turn to Empire: the rise of imperial liberalism in Britain and France (Princeton 2005); co-editor of The Law of Nations in Global History (Oxford 2017); and editor and translator of Alexis de Tocqueville: writings on empire and slavery (Johns Hopkins 2001). She is an editor of the Cambridge University Press series Ideas in Context.
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Jennifer Pitts
Professor of Political Science, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago