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 the History of Universities. 

           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.'' Forthcoming in Locke Studies.

            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 the Political and Social Thought in the Age of Enlightenment further subject and the History of the British Isles 5: 1685-1830 outline paper.