Neven Brady Leddy
Contract Instructor
Department of History
Carleton University
Canada
Biography
Neven is an historian of the eighteenth century Atlantic World, specializing in cultural and intellectual history. He has taught in the Humanities and Social Sciences at numerous Canadian universities. At Carleton he teaches World History for the History Department and teaches in the College of Humanities. His research interests include the history of political thought and ideas, migration and education. Neven’s current research centers on the experience of studying abroad in eighteenth-century Europe. This investigation regularly takes him to Geneva, Scotland, New York and more recently to South Carolina.
Research Interest
• The Enlightenment in the Old World and the New • Migration in the Atlantic World
Publications
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Leddy, Neven and Avi Lifschitz, eds. Epicurus in the Enlightenment. Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation, 2009.
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Leddy, Neven. “Grave, Philosophical and Cool Reasoner: Mary Wollstonecraft on the use of gender in Adam Smith.†The Adam Smith Review 7 (2013).
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Kellow, Geoffrey and Neven Leddy, eds. On Civic Republicanism. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016.
