Forman-Barzilai joined the faculty in 2002.  Her research and teaching interests are situated broadly in ancient and modern European thought -- political, moral and economic.  She has particular interests in Adam Smith, in moral psychology and in international political theory.  She is the author of Adam Smith and the Circles of Sympathy: Cosmopolitanism and Moral Theory (forthcoming, Cambridge 2009), and her work has appeared in Political Theory, Perspectives on Political Science, Critical Review, History of Political Thought, and various edited volumes. She is currently working on a book on the classical roots of eighteenth-century international thought.  Since 2005 she has been Book Review Editor of The Adam Smith Review.  She has been the recipient of various junior faculty fellowships and teaching awards at UCSD, the University of Chicago Social Sciences Dissertation Prize in 2002, a Mellon dissertation research grant, and from 1999-2001 the Political Theory Fellowship, during which she served as Assistant Editor of the journal.

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Office: SSB 371
Phone: (858) 822-3868
E-mail: ffb@ucsd.edu