James Hamilton Tully is an emeritus professor of Political Science and Law. After completing his BA at University of British Columbia and PhD at the University of Cambridge (Trinity College) he taught in the departments of Political Science and Philosophy at McGill University 1977-96 (Chair, Department of Philosophy 1994-6). He was Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at UVic 1996-2001 and cross appointed in Law, Indigenous Governance and Philosophy. In 2001-03 he was the inaugural Henry N.R. Jackman distinguished professor in Philosophical Studies at the University of Toronto in the departments of Philosophy and Political Science and the Faculty of Law. In 2003 he returned to Uvic as distinguished professor. He retired in 2014. As emeritus and adjunct professor he continues his research and work with graduate students. He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Emeritus Fellow of the Trudeau Foundation. In 2010 he was awarded the Killam Prize in the Humanities for his outstanding contribution to scholarship and Canadian public life. In May 2014, he was awarded the David H. Turpin Gold Medal for Career Achievement in Research.
Research Interests: Political Science, Legal theory and Philosophy, Indigenous-settler relations, and Civic engagement and democracy
| Institution: | University of Victoria |
| Fields of Expertise: | Civil Society Democracy and Political Participation Ethics and Political Philosophy Indigenous Politics Law and Legal Issues |
| Research groups: | Democracy/Populism/Nationalism |
| Email: | jtully@uvic.ca |
| Media outreach: | Yes |
| Languages: | English |
| Publications: | Co-editor with John Borrows & Michael Asch, co-Introduction with John Borrows, and contributor, Resurgence and Reconciliation: Indigenous-Settler relations and Earth Teachings, University of Toronto Press, November 2018. Editor and Introduction to Richard Bartlett Gregg, The Power of Nonviolence, Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought, Cambridge University Press, October 2018. With Robert Nichols and Jakeet Singh, editors, Freedom and Democracy in an Imperial Context: Dialogues with James Tully, London, Routledge, 2014, 11 chapters by authors and my responses. 'Reciprocal Elucidation', Dimitri Karmis and Jocelyn Maclure, eds., Civic Freedom in an Age of Diversity: The public philosophy of James Tully, (McGill-Queens University Press, 2019, forthcoming), my response to 15 chapters by interlocutors. 'Trust, Mistrust and Distrust in Diverse Societies', Dimitrios Karmis and Francois Rocher, eds., Trust and Distrust in Political Theory and Practice: The Case of Diverse Societies, (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2019, forthcoming). 'Life Sustains Life', Akeel Bilgrami, ed., Nature and Value, (Columbia University Press, 2019 forthcoming). ‘Deparochializing Political Theory and Beyond: A dialogue approach to comparative political thought’, Journal of World Philosophies, 1:1, December 2017, 51-74, with 4 responses in the following issue. ‘Political Theory as a Critical Activity: The Emergence of Public Philosophy’, Japanese Journal of Political Thought, 17 (May 2017), 498-514. Main author, editorial: ‘Introducing global integral constitutionalism’, Global Constitutionalism: human rights, democracy, law, 5:1, 2016, 1-15. |
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