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Professor Mehta has taught at several universities, including Princeton, Cornell, MIT, University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, Hull and Amherst College. He is the author of\u00a0The Anxiety of Freedom: Imagination and Individuality in the Political Thought of John Locke<\/em>(Cornell University Press, 1992) and\u00a0Liberalism and Empire<\/em>, (University of Chicago Press, 2000).\u00a0Liberalism and Empire<\/em>\u00a0was awarded the J. David Greenstone prize for the best book in Political Theory by the American Political Science Association in 2002. In 2003, Mehta was one of ten recipients of the prestigious \u201cCarnegie Scholars\u201d prize given to \u201cscholars of exceptional creativity.\u201d He has a forthcoming book titled\u00a0A Different Vision: Gandhi\u2019s Critique of Political Rationality<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Professor Mehta has taught at several universities, including Princeton, Cornell, MIT, University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, Hull and Amherst College. He is the author of\u00a0The Anxiety of Freedom: Imagination and Individuality in the Political Thought of John Locke(Cornell University… Continue Reading