Meg Mott
Professor of Politics, Marlboro College
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About Meg
After working as a Court Advocate at a battered women’s shelter, Mott returned to higher education in order to better understand how feminist legal theory was changing the practices and assumptions of American liberalism. She uses the techniques of political theory to investigate the philosophical underpinnings of feminist and environmental public policy and how some of those good intentions have dangerous democratic consequences.
Contributions
In the News
"New Title IX Rules Would Empower Both The Accused And The Survivors," Meg Mott, New England Public Radio, January 16, 2019.
"How Many Colleges Mishandle Sexual Assault Cases – And What to Do about It," Meg Mott, Answer Sheet, The Washington Post, July 31, 2014.
"Attack on Campus Sexual Assaults Must Not Destroy Due Process," Meg Mott, Hechinger Report, May 13, 2014.
Publications
"Leonor de Caceres and the Mexican Inquisition" Journal of the History of Ideas (January 2001).
Uses a 1601 inquisition proceeding to consider how the colonial Holy Office used natural law reasoning to reconcile a young woman to the faith.
"Catholic Roots and Democratic Flowers" (with ) (Praeger Press, 2001).
Argues that Iberian democracies will look different than Anglo-American democracies given their Aristotelian and Thomist philosophical underpinnings.