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Sarah Houser’s primary area of concentration is Political Theory with a secondary concentration in American politics. She is particularly interested in the question of nature of the political community and the obligations of citizenship in a contemporary context. She completed and defended her dissertation, entitled Loving Pimlico: Patriotism in the Age of the Cosmopolis, and directed by Michael Zuckert, in August 2009. In her dissertation Houser examines the cosmopolitan critique of patriotism in the work of Martha Nussbaum and the concept of “constitutional patriotism,” first proposed by Jürgen Habermas and popular among theorists of the European Union, as well as a positive theory of patriotism based upon a Thomistic and Aristotelian understanding of friendship.

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