Jacob Chatterjee

Research Topic: The Idea of Happiness in Anglican Religious Culture, 1642-1751. Supervisor: Dr Jon Parkin

Peer-Reviewed Academic Articles:

           11. ''The Nature, Context, and Reception of Daniel Whitby's Epicurean Ethics Textbook: the Ethices Compendium (1684).'' Forthcoming in Erudition and the Republic of Letters. 

           10. ''John Locke’s Paraphrase and Notes on the Epistles of St. Paul in the Intellectual Culture of the Eighteenth-Century Church of England, 1707–1800.'' Locke Studies 24 (2024): 1-43, https://doi.org/10.5206/ls.2024.18449 . 

            9. ''The Identities of Henry More's Correspondents in his Letters on Self-Love.'' Notes & Queries (2024): 1-4, https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjae087.

            8. ''Some Overlooked Extracts from Mary Wollstonecraft's Writings Published in Britain, 1792–1795.'' ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, Online First View (2024): 1-3, https://doi.org/10.1080/0895769X.2024.2364276 .

            7. ''The Reception of John Locke's Writings at Christ Church, Oxford, c. 1690-1800.'' Locke Studies, 23 (2023): 1–34, https://doi.org/10.5206/ls.2023.16785.

            6. ''An Unnoticed 1723 Edition of Edward Southwell's Translation of Henry More's Enchiridion Ethicum.'' Notes & Queries, 70/4 (2023): 271–2, https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjad096 .

            5. ''Christ Church, Oxford, Anglican Moral Theology, and the Reception of John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding, c. 1689-1725.'' History of Universities, 36/2 (2023): 98–126. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198901730.003.0006 .

           4. ''One Hundred and Eighty-Two Overlooked British Comments on Bernard Mandeville's Fable of the Bees, 1724–1800.''  Historical Research 95/269 (2022): 447–470. https://doi.org/10.1093/hisres/htac007.

           3. “Celestial Epicurisme: John Locke and the Anglican Language of Pleasure, 1650–1697.’’ The Seventeenth Century 37/2 (2022): 303–34. https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117X.2021.1904275.

           2. “Christian Antiquity and the Anglican Reception of John Locke’s Paraphrase and Notes on the Epistles of St Paul, 1707–1730.” Locke Studies 20 (2021): 1–36. https://doi.org/10.5206/ls.2020.10597. 

          1. “Between Hobbes and Locke: John Humfrey and Restoration Theories of Political Obligation.’’ Locke Studies 19         (2019): 1–34. https://doi.org/10.5206/ls.2019.5439.

Education:

• MSt Intellectual History – Distinction, Lincoln College, Oxford, 2019–20.
• BA Ancient & Modern History – First Class Honours, Christ Church, Oxford, 2015–18.

Prizes and Awards:

• Gibbs Prize for the highest overall mark in my year for any Joint School of History undergraduate finals candidate at the University of Oxford, 2018.
• Gladstone Prize for the best undergraduate thesis in History, PPE and Geography at Christ Church, Oxford, 2018.
• Oxford-Farrell Graduate Scholarship providing full funding for my MSt in Intellectual History at Lincoln College, Oxford, 2019–2020.
• Lincoln College Graduate Distinction Prize for achieving a high overall mark in the MSt in Intellectual History at the University of Oxford, 2020.
• Best Performance in Cohort Prize for achieving the highest overall mark in all the strands of the MSt in History at the University of Oxford, 2020.
• Peter Storey AHRC OOC DTP Studentship providing funding for a three year doctorate in Early Modern History at Balliol College, Oxford, 2020–2023.
• Clarendon Scholarship providing funding for a three year doctorate in Early Modern History at Balliol College, Oxford, 2020–2023.

Editor for the Oxford Centre for Intellectual History Blog, October 2020 to October 2022: https://intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/blog#/. 

I have taught tutorials for Historiography: Tacitus to Weber, Political and Social Thought in the Age of Enlightenment and the History of the British Isles 5: 1685-1830.