Rate My Professor Alexandre Lefebvre

Alexandre Lefebvre is Professor of Politics and Philosophy in the Discipline of Government and International Relations and the Discipline of Philosophy within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney, where he has held appointments since 2010. He progressed from Lecturer (2010-2012) to Senior Lecturer (2013-2016), Associate Professor (2017-2020), and Professor (2021-present). Lefebvre earned his PhD in Intellectual History from The Johns Hopkins University in 2007 with a dissertation titled The Image of Law: Deleuze, Bergson, Spinoza, his MA in Social and Political Thought from York University in 2003, and his BA (Honours) in Geography from The University of British Columbia in 2001. His research specializations include political philosophy, human rights as a way of life, liberalism, jurisprudence, Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze, and Baruch Spinoza. He has received major awards and fellowships such as the Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellowship at Princeton University's Center for Human Values (2021-2022, $158,848), Vice-Chancellor's Outstanding Research and Teaching Award from the University of Sydney (2017), SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (2008-2009, $112,210), and SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship (2003-2007, $107,055). He has also been recognized with the Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning from the Australian Award for University Teaching (2019) and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2019-present).