Susanne Sreedhar

Sreedhar received her doctorate in philosophy in 2005 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and has also previously received a graduate degree in Women's Studies from Duke University. After receiving her doctorate in philosophy, Sreedhar spent time as a tenure-track assistant professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at Tulane University, before moving to Boston University in 2007 to accept an Assistant Professorship of Philosophy. ==Research areas==

Most of Sreedhar's work has dealt with modern social contract theory, recently reinterpreted from a feminist perspective. Sreedhar is well known for arguing that there is a strong potential for equality inherent within modern social contract theory, and that this possibility has existed as long as modern social contract theory has, but that it has not generally been recognized. Sreedhar's upcoming book, Gender and Early Modern Social Contract Theory, will lay out an argument that modern contract theory has included the potential for radical equality for as long as it has existed, and will attempt to explain the paths of history that have denied this possibility from ever being actualized. Sreedhar intends this book to represent a far more sustained investigation into the feminist potential of the social contract than has previously been conducted. ==Publications==

Sreedhar has published a number of peer-reviewed papers, as well as one book, with another on the way, tentatively titled Gender and Early Modern Social Contract Theory. Further, Sreedhar argues that resistance against the sovereign is not justifiable just because death is bad, but because the average human's psychology impulse in the face of impending death or severe harm to fight is so great as to be impossible to overcome - in other words, man cannot promise the impossible. Moreover, such a clause would undermine the existence of the social contract, and is not necessary for the social contract to function in the first place. ==References==