How can Danielle Allen’s scholarship and ongoing political campaign shape our thinking about the future of American scholarship and politics? Experts from across the disciplines respond.
Danielle Allen
Danielle Allen is the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University, and is currently campaigning for Governor of Massachusetts. Her most recent book is Democracy in the Time of Coronavirus.
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Speakers :
Ryan K. Balot is Professor of Political Science and Classics at the University of Toronto. Balot specializes in classical political thought. He received his doctorate in Classics at Princeton University and his B.A. degrees in Classics from The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. Before moving to Political Science at Toronto, he taught for nearly a decade in the Classics departments at Union College and Washington University in St. Louis.
Susan McWilliams Barndt is professor of politics at Pomona College, where she has won the Wig Award for Excellence in Teaching three times. She received her doctorate in Arts from Princeton University and her B.A. degree in Arts from Amherst College.
For her work, McWilliams has received awards including the Graves Award in the Humanities, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and the Quarry Farm Fellowship from the Elmira College Center for Mark Twain Studies.
Based in Charlottesville, Virginia and Washington D.C., Jamelle Bouie is a columnist for the New York Times and political analyst for CBS News. He covers history and politics.
Prior to the Times, Jamelle was chief political correspondent for Slate magazine. And before that, he was a staff writer at The Daily Beast and held fellowships at The American Prospect and The Nation magazine. He attended the University of Virginia, where he graduated with a degree in political and social thought, and government.
Simone Chambers is Professor and Chair of Political Science at the University of California Irvine. She received her BA from McGill University and her PhD from Columbia University. She has written and published on such topics as deliberative democracy, referendums, constitutional politics, the public sphere, secularism, rhetoric, civility, and the work of Jürgen Habermas and John Rawls. She is working on two book projects, Contemporary Democratic Theory in Crisis Times, a critical survey of new developments in democratic theory and a book of collected essays, Deliberation and the Future of Democracy: A realistic but not realist political theory.
Roosevelt Montás is Senior Lecturer in American Studies and English at Columbia University. He holds an A.B. (1995), an M.A. (1996), and a Ph.D. (2004) in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. He was Director of the Center for the Core Curriculum at Columbia College from 2008 to 2018. Roosevelt specializes in Antebellum American literature and culture, with a particular interest in American citizenship.
He is Director of the Center for American Studies’ Freedom and Citizenship Program in collaboration with the Double Discovery Center. He speaks and writes on the history, meaning, and future of liberal education and is author of Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation (Princeton University Press, 2021).
Deva Woodly is an Associate Professor of Politics at the New School. She is the author of Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements (Oxford 2021) and The Politics of Common Sense: How Social Movements Use Public Discourse to Change Politics and Win Acceptance (Oxford 2015). She has also held fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton as well as the Edmund J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard. Her research covers a variety of topics, from media & communication, to political understandings of economics, to race & imagination, & social movements. In each case, she focuses on the impacts of public discourse on the political understandings of social and economic issues as well as how those common understandings change democratic practice and public policy. Her process of inquiry is inductive, moving from concrete, real-world conditions to the conceptual implications of those realities. In all cases, she centers the perspective of ordinary citizens and political challengers with an eye toward how the demos impacts political action and shapes political possibilities.
