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).

Lefebvre is a prolific author and editor, with key monographs including Liberalism as a Way of Life (Princeton University Press, 2024), named a Best Book of 2024 by The New Yorker, The Australian Book Review, Persuasion, and The Ministry of Pop Culture; Human Rights and the Care of the Self (Duke University Press, 2018); Human Rights as a Way of Life: On Bergson's Political Philosophy (Stanford University Press, 2013); and The Image of Law: Deleuze, Bergson, Spinoza (Stanford University Press, 2008). His edited volumes include The Subject of Human Rights (with Danielle Celermajer, Stanford University Press, 2020) and Interpreting Bergson: Critical Essays (with Nils Schott, Cambridge University Press, 2020). Notable articles encompass Bergson on Durkheim: Society sui generis (with Melanie White, Journal of Classical Sociology, 2010) and The gift of law: Greek euergetism and Ottoman waqf (with Engin F. Isin, European Journal of Social Theory, 2005). He has secured significant grants, including Vital Politics: Rethinking Normativity in the Anthropocene (Chief Investigator, Independent Research Fund Denmark, 2021-2023, $672,391). Lefebvre's scholarship has garnered substantial academic impact, evidenced by citation counts such as 222 for The Image of Law and 81 for Human Rights as a Way of Life, alongside influence in public discourse through reviews in The New York Times and The Washington Post.

Professional Email: alex.lefebvre@sydney.edu.au