ELENA YI-JIA ZENG
EDUCATION
2020–24
PhD in Political Thought & Intellectual History – Passed with no corrections
King's College, University of Cambridge
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2018–19
MA History of Political Thought and Intellectual History – Distinction
Queen Mary University of London & University College London
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2014–18
BA History
National Taiwan Normal University
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENT
2024–present
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Political Theory
Princeton University Center for Human Values
Elena Yi-Jia Zeng specializes in modern political theory and intellectual history. Her research addresses the ideas and institutions that give rise to liberalism. In pursuing this line of inquiry, she investigates the role of skepticism in Enlightenment moral and political thought in her first monograph The Politics of Belief in Enlightenment Skepticism.
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MEMBERSHIP & AWARD
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Member of the Britain & Ireland Association for Political Thought
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Royal Historical Society
Postgraduate Member (elected 2022)
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Member of the Hume Society
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Cambridge Trust Scholar
(fully-funded doctoral scholarship)