Biography

Nancy Rosenblum

Senator Joseph Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government emerita

Nancy Rosenblum is the Harvard University Senator Joseph Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government emerita. She was the chair of the Government Department from 2004-2011. Her field of research is historical and contemporary political thought, with a focus on liberalism and pluralism. She is the author, with Russell Muirhead, of Ungoverning: the Attack on the Administrative State and the Politics of Chaos (2024) and A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy (2019) both published by Princeton University Press. She sees these works as combining scholarship and activism. Her book Good Neighbors: The Democracy of Everyday Life in America (2016) was also published by Princeton University Press. Her book On the Side of the Angels: An Appreciation of Parties and Partisanship (2008) received the Walter Channing Cabot Fellow Award from Harvard in 2010 for scholarly eminence. She is also the author of Membership and Morals: The Personal Uses of Pluralism in America (1998), which was awarded the APSA David Easton Prize in 2000. Her edited works include, among other books, Breaking the Cycles of Hatred: Memory, Law, and Repair (2002) with Martha Minow; Obligations of Citizenship and Demands of Faith: Religious Accommodation in Pluralist Democracies (2000); and Civil Society and Government (2002), co-edited with Robert Post. She is also the editor of Thoreau: Political Writings (1996) from the Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought series. Professor Rosenblum is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science. She is past President of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, past Vice-President of the American Political Science Association, and a past Board Member of the Russell Sage Foundation. She served on the board of The Annual Review of Political Science from 2007-212 and was co-editor from 2012-2020.