The Jack Miller Center is proud to announce that Professor John Zumbrunnen has joined the JMC Constitution Day Initiative Steering Group.
John Zumbrunnen is at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and has wide-ranging interests in the history of political thought, democratic theory, American political thought, and the philosophy of social science. His recent research works at the intersection of Greek political thought and contemporary democratic theory, seeking in particular to recover ancient texts as resources for our thinking about the place and potential of ordinary citizens in mass democracy. Zumbrunnen’s first book, Silence and Democracy: Athenian Politics in Thucydides’ History,was published by Penn State University Press in May 2008. His second book, Aristophanic Comedy and the Challenge of Democratic Citizenship will be published by the University of Rochester Press/Boydell & Brewer in 2012. His work has appeared inThe American Political Science Review, Political Theory, Polity, History of Political Thought and Political Behavior as well as in various edited volumes.
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