Prof. James Tully

Professor Tully is internationally recognized as one of the leading political theorists. His reputation is based on his scholarship in the history of European and North American political theory, contemporary political theory, and Canadian political and constitutional theory. In the history of political thought, he is widely acknowledged to be one of the foremost scholars of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and especially of the works and influence of John Locke. Building on the methods of Quentin Skinner and Charles Taylor, he has developed an approach which employs his historical scholarship to shed light on problems of contemporary political theory and practice. Here he has an international reputation in the area of multiculturalism, multinationalism and the related issues of democratic citizenship and freedom.