Samuel Goldman

Jack Miller Center Summer Institute Faculty
Associate Professor of Humanities, University of Florida

Samuel Goldman is Associate Professor of Humanities at the Hamilton School for Classical and Civic Education at the University of Florida. His scholarship is at the intersection of political theory and intellectual history, with a focus on religious sources of American national identity. Goldman is author of two books: After Nationalism: Being American in a Divided Age (UPenn, 2021) and God’s Country: Christian Zionism in America (UPenn, 2018). In addition to academic work, his writing has appeared in The New York TimesThe Wall Street JournalThe Washington Post, and many other publications.

Samuel Goldman is also a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and editor of FUSION. Goldman was previously an associate professor of political science at George Washington University and held a number of positions in journalism.

Research interests:
Political Theory
Religion
American National Identity
Conservative Thought

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