Jacob Chatterjee

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Weston Junior Research Fellow in History
New College

Monographs:

         1.  The Epicurean Revolution: The Transformation of the Idea of Happiness in England, 1625-1780. Provisionally accepted for publication by Oxford University Press for the Oxford Historical Monographs series.

         2. The Reception of Mary Wollstonecraft's Writings in the Intellectual Cultures of the British Isles, 1787-1815. In preparation.

Peer-Reviewed Academic Articles:

           20. "The Origins of R. G. Collingwood's Philosophy of History in his Philosophy of Religion.'' Forthcoming in the Heythrop Journal.

           19. "Lockean Philosophy and Newtonian Medicine in the Intellectual Career of the Apothecary John Quincy, 1712-1722.'' Forthcoming in Locke Studies.

           18. "Catharine Macaulay’s Reworkings of William Paley’s Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy (1785) in her Letters on Education (1790).'' Notes & Queries, Online First View (2026): 1-4, https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjag044 . 

           17. "An Undiscovered Letter by Mary Wollstonecraft.'' Notes & Queries, Online First View (2026): 1-8, https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjag003 .

           16. "The Construction of a Bestseller: the Case of Thomas Nettleton’s Some Thoughts Concerning Virtue and Happiness (1729)." Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Online First View (2025): 1-16, https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.70014 . 

           15. "An Unnoticed 1675 Sermon by John Tillotson Against the Earl of Rochester's Satyr Against Reason and Mankind." Notes & Queries, Online First View (2025): 1-6, https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjaf099 .

           14. ''An Unrecorded 1785 Discourse by Catharine Macaulay.'' Women's History Review, Online First View (2025): 1-7, https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2025.2541449.

           13. ''The Art of Writing Bad Poetry in Eighteenth-Century England: A Study of the True-Born Britain (1707).'' ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, Online First View (2025): 1-12, https://doi.org/10.1080/0895769X.2025.2539740 .

           12. ''Bernard Mandeville's Critique of Epicurus and the ''easie Divines'' of the Church of England, 1705-1732.'' Intellectual History Review, 35/4 (2025): 657-84, https://doi.org/10.1080/17496977.2025.2525695 .

           11.  ''The Nature, Context, and Reception of Daniel Whitby's Epicurean Ethics Textbook: the Ethices Compendium (1684).'' Erudition and the Republic of Letters, 10/2 (2025): 145-191, https://doi.org/10.1163/24055069-10020001 . 

           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, 38/3 (2025): 351-53, 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:

  • DPhil in Early Modern History – Balliol College, Oxford, 2020-24.
  • 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.
  • Robert W. Prichard Prize for an outstanding dissertation, successfully defended between 1 January 2022 and 31 December 2024, on the history of Anglicanism and Episcopalianism. Awarded by the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church.

I have taught Historiography:Tacitus to Weber, the History of the British Isles 4: 1500-1700, the History of the British Isles 5: 1685-1830, European and World History 8: 1680-1815, European and World History 3: 1400-1640, Political and Social Thought in the Age of Enlightenment, Disciplines of History, and Early Modern Christianity, 1500-1648.

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