Pat Moloney

Senior Lecturer

BA(Hons) MA VUW, PhD Rutgers

Profile

Pat Moloney is a Senior Lecturer in Political Theory. He has been on the teaching staff of the University since 1995. He currently teaches POLS 112: Introduction to Political Ideas, and POLS 402, an Honours paper on theories of colonisation. His research interests include early modern political thought, sexuality, and colonisation.

Current Research Projects

His latest projects include an article entitled 'Augustine, Sexuality and Political Authority', and another entitled 'Hobbes, America and International Relations'.

Selection of Publications

Pat Moloney, 'Abandonando el Jardín del Edén: Autoridad Política y Autoridad Lingüística en Thomas Hobbes', transl. by Carlos Hernan Marion Ospina, LOGOS , Review of the Philosophy Faculty, La Salle University, Bogotá, Vol. 1, No. 10 (2006), pp. 21-38.

Pat Moloney, 'New Zealand's Ideological Tradition', New Zealand Government and Politics Fourth Edition , (ed.) Raymond Miller, (Auckland: Oxford University Press, 2006), pp. 36-46.

Pat Moloney, 'Savages in the Scottish Enlightenment's History of Desire', Journal of the History of Sexuality , Vol. 14, No. 3 (July 2005), pp. 237-65.

Allison Kirkman and Pat Moloney (eds.), Sexuality Down Under: Social and Historical Perspectives (Dunedin : University of Otago Press , 2005)

Pat Moloney, 'Introduction', The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith, ( New York : Barnes & Noble Books, 2004), pp. xiii-xx.

Pat Moloney & Kerry Taylor (eds.), On the Left: Essays on the History of Socialism in New Zealand (Dunedin : University of Otago Press , 2002)

Pat Moloney, 'Savagery and Civilisation: Early Victorian Notions', New Zealand Journal of History , Vol. 35, No. 2 (October 2001), pp. 153-76.

Pat Moloney, 'Take Me to Your Reader', in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Vol. 7, No. 1 (2001), pp. 87-100.

Pat Moloney, 'Colonisation, Civilisation and Cultivation: Early Victorians' Theories of Property Rights and Sovereignty', in A. R. Buck, John McLaren and Nancy E. Wright (eds.) Land and Freedom: Law, Property Rights and the British Diaspora (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001), pp. 23-38.

Current Teaching

POLS 112 – Introduction to Political Ideas

POLS 402 – A Selected Topic in Political Theory: the Construction of Non-European Peoples

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