Curriculum Vitae

Box 90103, Durham, NC 27708-0103

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Education

Ph.D.	University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)	2009
M.Phil.	University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)	2005
B.A.	Bowdoin College	2004

Areas of Research

Cicero; Greek, Roman, and early Christian political and moral philosophy; history of political thought

Professional Experience / Employment History

Duke University

Assistant Professor of Classics, 2009

Visiting Positions

Lecturer in Classics, University of London, 2008 - 2009

Part-time

Postgraduate Tutorial Assistant in Classics, University of London, 2008 - 2009

Part-time

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

Democracy and Law: Ancient and Modern, Humanities Writ Large Mellon Grant
Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Classical Studies, Classical Studies, Duke University, 2014-15
Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Classical Studies, Classical Studies, Duke University, 2013-14
Democracy: Ancient and Modern, Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Duke University
Elected ‘Scholar’ of Sidney Sussex College, Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge, 2007
Howard Studentship, Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge, 2007-2008
Goold Classics Prize in Latin and Greek, Bowdoin College, 2004
Keasbey Memorial Foundation Scholarship, Keasbey Memorial Foundation, 2004-2006
Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Beta Kappa Society, 2004
Philo Sherman Bennett Priz, Bowdoin College, 2004
Hannibal Hamlin Emery Prize in Latin, Bowdoin College, 2003
James and Sarah Bowdoin Scholar, Bowdoin College, 2001-2004

Professional Service

Selected Recent Invited Talks

Christianity and Religious Tolerance, St. John's Law School, 5 October 2020

How to Destroy Tolerance, Duke CCS, 1 August 2020

Augustine on Political Judgment and Tolerance, Princeton, 19 November 2019

Christianity and the Origins of Tolerance, Yale, 15 November 2019

Christianity and the Origins of Tolerance, Morningside Institute, 14 November 2019

Is Tolerance A Virtue?, Bowdoin College, 29 October 2019

Gratitude: An Ancient Virtue for the Modern World, Wheaton, 12 April 2018

Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism in Cicero's De officiis, University of Chicago, 1 April 2018

Cicero on Athenian Democracy and Its Critics, France, 1 March 2018

Hope and Empire in the Dream of Scipio, Paris, France, 1 March 2018

Plato’s Laws, Zeno’s Republic, and the Early Development of Stoic Natural Law Theory, Cornell University, March 10, 2014

Cicero on Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism in De officiis, American Philological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, January, 2014

Plato’s Laws and the Development of Stoic Natural Law Theory, American Philological Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, January, 2013

Plato’s Laws and the Development of Stoic Natural Law Theory, Northeastern Political Science Association, November, 2012

Cicero on Constitutional Change and the Mixed Constitution, University of Virginia, January, 2012

Natural Law and the Laws of Cicero's De Legibus, American Philological Association Annual Meeting, January, 2012

Political Society and Citizens' Rights in Cicero's Republic, University of Virginia, January 28, 2011

The First Founding Father? The Greeks and the Mixed Regime, University of Virginia, January 28, 2011

Polybius and Cicero on Constitutional Change and the Mixed Constitution, Polybius: Historian-Philosopher?, University of Oxford, May, 2008

Cicero's Skepticism and Politics, 1st Century BC Philosphy Seminar, University of Cambridge, February, 2008

History and Constitutional Change: Plato Republic 8 in the Political Theory of Cicero and Polybius, London, November, 2007

The Officia of St. Ambrose’s De Officiis, University of Cambridge, October, 2007

The Argument of De Republica and the Dream of Scipio, University of Oxford, May, 2007

Foundations of Justice in De Republica 3, Political Thought and Intellectual History Workship, University of Cambridge, October, 2006

Professional Affiliations

American Philological Association
Société internationale des Amis de Cicéron (SIAC)
American Political Science Association

Publications

Books

1. Atkins, JW; Bénatouïl, T, The Cambridge Companion to Cicero's Philosophy (December, 2021), pp. 356 pages, Cambridge University Press.
2. Atkins, JW, ROMAN POLITICAL THOUGHT (January, 2018), pp. 1-240, Cambridge University Press [doi].
3. Atkins, JW, Cicero on Politics and the Limits of Reason: The Republic and Laws (Fall, 2013), Cambridge University Press [9781107043589].

Articles

1. Atkins, JW, John Rawls’s Theology of Liberal Toleration, American Political Thought, vol. 13 no. 1 (December, 2024), pp. 56-82 [doi].
2. Atkins, J, Empire, Just Wars, and Cosmopolitanism, in The Cambridge Companion to Cicero's Philosophy, edited by Atkins, J; Benatouil, T (2022), pp. 231-251, Cambridge.
3. Atkins, J; Young, C, Divided Sovereignty: Polybius and the Compound Constitution, in Reading Texts on Sovereignty, edited by Achilleos, S; Balasoupolis, A (2021), pp. 25-32, Bloomsbury.
4. Atkins, J, Hope and Empire in Ciceronian Eschatology, in Eschatology in Antiquity, edited by Pollman, K; Van Noorden, H; Marlow, H (2021), pp. 267-279, Routledge.
5. Atkins, JW, Leo Strauss's Lucretius and the Art of Writing, in Euphrosyne Studies in Ancient Philosophy, History, and Literature, edited by Burian, P; Strauss Clay, J; Davis, G (March, 2020), pp. 29-55, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG.
6. Atkins, JW; Murgier, C, Espoir et empire dans le songe de Scipion, Cahiers philosophiques, vol. N° 159 no. 4 (January, 2020), pp. 27-41, CAIRN [doi].
7. Atkins, JW, Tertullian on 'The Freedom of Religion', Polis (United Kingdom), vol. 37 no. 1 (January, 2020), pp. 145-175, Brill [doi].
8. Atkins, JW, Book Review: Ethics and the Orator: The Ciceronian Tradition of Political Morality, by Gary A. Remer, Political Theory, vol. 47 no. 1 (February, 2019), pp. 142-147, SAGE Publications [doi].
9. Atkins, JW, Integrity and Conscience in Medical Ethics: A Ciceronian Perspective., Perspectives in biology and medicine, vol. 62 no. 3 (January, 2019), pp. 470-488, Project Muse [doi].
10. Atkins, JW, Non-domination and the libera res publica in Cicero's Republicanism, History of European Ideas, vol. 44 no. 6 (August, 2018), pp. 756-773, Informa UK Limited [doi].
11. Atkins, JW, Natural Law and Civil Religion: De legibus, Book II", in Ciceros Staatsphilosophie, edited by Hoeffe, O, vol. 64 (2017), pp. 167-186.
12. Atkins, JW, Zeno's Republic, plato's Laws, and the early development of stoic natural law theory, Polis (United Kingdom), vol. 32 no. 1 (May, 2015), pp. 166-190, BRILL [doi].
13. Atkins, JW, Constitution and Empire in Roman Republican Thought, in Rome, Museums and World Civilizations (2015), Peyking University Press.
14. Atkins, JW, A revolutionary doctrine? Cicero's natural right teaching in Mably and Burke, Classical Receptions Journal, vol. 6 no. 2 (Summer, 2014), pp. 177-197, Oxford University Press (OUP) [doi].
15. Atkins, JW, Euripides's orestes and the concept of conscience in Greek philosophy, Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 75 no. 1 (January, 2014), pp. 1-22, Johns Hopkins University Press [doi].
16. Atkins, JW, Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106–43 BCE), in The Encyclopedia of Political Thought, edited by Gibbons, M (2014), pp. 489-498, Wiley-Blackwell.
17. Atkins, JW, Cicero on the Relationship between Plato’s Republic and Laws, in Ancient Approaches to Plato’s Republic, BICS Supplement 117, edited by Sheppard, A (2013), pp. 15-34.
18. Atkins, JW, Cicero on the Relationship between Plato’s Republic and Laws (2013).
19. Atkins, JW, Greek and Roman Political Philosophy, in Oxford Bibliographies in "Classics", edited by Dee Clayman (Fall, 2012), Oxford University Press (Li nk.).
20. Atkins, JW, The officia of St. Ambrose's de officiis, Journal of Early Christian Studies, vol. 19 no. 1 (Spring, 2011), pp. 49-77, Johns Hopkins University Press [Gateway.cgi], [doi].
21. Atkins, JW, L'argument du De Re Publica et le Songe de Scipion, Etudes Philosophiques, vol. 99 no. 4 (Winter, 2011), pp. 455-469, CAIRN [doi].

Other

1. with Rousselot, P, A Young Researcher Tackles the De Republica, Gazette Tulliana, vol. 2 no. Spring (Spring, 2010), pp. 5-7, Societe internationale des amis de Ciceron (SIAC).

Book & Monograph Reviews

1. Atkins, J, "How Christianity Changed Singleness", First Things, vol. 299 no. January 2020 (January, 2020), pp. 44-50.
2. Atkins, JW, "Ethics and the Orator: The Ciceronian Tradition of Political Morality by Gary A. Remer", Political Theory (December, 2017), pp. 1-6, SAGE Publications.
3. Atkins, JW, Review of Catherine Steel, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Cicero (Cambridge, 2013) (June, 2014), The Classical Journal [Atkins%20on%20Steel.pdf].
4. Atkins, JW, Cicero's Philosophica (Review of Yelena Baraz, A Written Republic. Cicero's Philosophical Politics), CLASSICAL REVIEW, vol. 63 no. 2 (October, 2013), pp. 417-419, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [Gateway.cgi], [doi].