Samuel Zeitlin is Lecturer in Modern Intellectual History at University College London, where he studies and teaches political thought, international relations, political philosophy, and intellectual history. His scholarship on Francis Bacon explores themes of war and peace in Bacon’s political philosophy, while his work on Carl Schmitt offers new interpretations of Schmitt’s views on history, law, and state theory.
Zeitlin co-translated and edited (with R. A. Berman) Land and Sea, which won the Independent Publisher Book Award in the Religion category in 2016. Before joining UCL, he taught at the University of California–Berkeley, the University of Chicago, Queen Mary University of London, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen, and the University of Cambridge, where he served as a College Lecturer and Fellow of Corpus Christi College.