Susan Lesley "Sue" Mendus, ,

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(born 25 August 1951) is a

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academic specialising in political philosophy. She is currently

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of Political Philosophy at the

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. She was Vice-President (Social Sciences) of the British Academy between 2008 and 2012.

Early life and education

Susan Coker was born on 25 August 1951 in

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, Wales, to John and Beryl Coker. She grew up in Waun Wen, Swansea, and was educated at Waun Wen Primary and Mynydd Bach schools. She studied classics and philosophy at

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, graduating in 1973 with First Class Honours. After Aberystwyth she turned to

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for a BPhil in 1975. In 1977, Susan Coker married Andrew Mendus and assumed her married name.

Academic career

In 1975, Mendus was appointed a lecturer in philosophy at the

. In 1986, she transferred to the Politics Department and was awarded the title Professor of Political Philosophy in 1995. Between 1995 and 2000, she was Director of the Morrell Studies in Toleration Programme at the University of York. She is a member of editorial boards of the ''British Journal of Political Science'', the '' Journal of Philosophy of Education'', and the '' Journal of Applied Philosophy''. Susan Mendus was called as an expert witness to the

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of 2011–2012 into the culture, practices and ethics of the British press.

Publications

*''Toleration and the limits of liberalism'' (1989) *''Feminism and emotion: readings in moral and political philosophy'' (2000) *''Impartiality in moral and political philosophy'' (2002) *''Politics and morality'' (2009)

Honours

Susan Mendus was elected a

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(FBA) in 2004. She is a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (FLSW), which was launched in 2010. She was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of

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in July 2012. In the 2013 New Year Honours, she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) "For services to Political Science".

References

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