Associate Professor of Political Science. Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2002.
Prof. Hanley received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, his M.Phil. from Cambridge University, and his Ph.D. from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Prior to coming to Marquette he was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University's Whitney Humanities Center.
His research in the history of political philosophy focuses on the Scottish Enlightenment. He is the author of Adam Smith and the Character of Virtue (Cambridge, 2009), and co-editor, with Darrin M. McMahon, of The Enlightenment: Critical Concepts in History, 5 vols. (Routledge, 2010). In addition, Professor Hanley is the editor of the Penguin Classics edition of Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments (Penguin, 2010), and current President of the International Adam Smith Society. His recent articles have appeared or are forthcoming in American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Political Theory, Review of Politics, History of Political Thought, and European Journal of Political Theory, among others. He is also the recipient of Fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Arête Initiative, and is currently at work on a study of love and wisdom in Enlightenment moral and political philosophy.
"Social Science and Human Flourishing: The Scottish Enlightenment and Today," Journal of Scottish Philosophy 7 (2009): 29-46.
"Hume's Last Lessons: The Civic Education of My Own Life," Review of Politics 64 (2002): 659-85.
"Aristotle on the Greatness of Greatness of Soul," History of Political Thought 23 (2002): 1-20.
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