Brianne Wolf

Brianne Wolf is an Associate Professor of Political Theory at James Madison College at Michigan State University. She specializes in the history of political thought, focusing on the Scottish and French Enlightenments, liberalism, moral judgement, and the interaction between economics and politics. Her published and ongoing research focuses on Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Friedrich Hayek, with numerous articles published in journals like History of Political Thought, Polity, and The Political Science Reviewer.

Prior to her position at Michigan State University, she served as an Assistant Professor at Ashland University. She completed her undergraduate work at James Madison College at MSU before to receiving her M.A. from the University of Chicago. She earned her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a dissertation on the relationship between freedom and aesthetic judgment in the modern age.

Research Interest:

History of Political Thought
History of Political Economy
Modern Political Thought
Liberalism
Scottish and French Enlightenments
Moral Judgement
Aesthetics