#  Nancy Rosenblum 

 



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**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 2007-2012 and was co-editor from 2012-2020.