Joshua Miller

Professor
Kirby Hall of Civil Rights - Room 112
millerj@lafayette.edu
(610) 330-5402
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Degrees

  • Ph.D. and M.A., Princeton University
  • B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz

Education: University of California, Santa Cruz (B.A);Princeton University (M.A., Ph.D.).

Teaching interests: Introduction to Political Theory, American Political Thought, Political Theory Through Literature.

Selected publications:
The Rise and Fall of Democracy in Early America, 1630-1789 (Penn State Press, 1991).

Democratic Temperament: the Legacy of William James (University of Kansas Press, 1997).

“Conservative Democracy in [Sheldon Wolin’s] Politics and Vision,” Theory and Event (2007).

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