Benjamin Gross
Jack Miller Center Founding Civics Initiative Faculty
Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Tocqueville Lecture Series
Benjamin Gross is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Jacksonville State University. His research focus on questions of science, technology, and happiness and their application in modern political philosophy. Gross has published multiple works on Jean-Jacques Rousseau, including his most recent book chapter in Making Sense of Diseases and Disasters: Reflections of Political Theory From Antiquity to the Age of Covid, published in 2022.
Benjamin Gross serves as the Director of the Tocqueville Lecture Series, which is funded by the Jack Miller Center, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Alabama Humanities Alliance. He is also a co-editor of Compass: An Undergraduate Journal of American Political Ideas. Furthermore, he is the Director of General Education and Program Coordinator of Political Science at Jacksonville State University.
Research interest:
Modern Political Philosophy
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
American Political Thought
International Human Rights
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
