Nancy L. Rosenblum

Nancy Lipton Rosenblum (born November 10, 1947) is a prominent American political scientist and political philosopher. She holds the position of Senator Joseph S. Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government at Harvard University. From 2015 to 2023, she served as the co-editor of the *Annual Review of Political Science*. Her academic work focuses on modern political thought and constitutional law. Rosenblum earned her Bachelor of Arts from Radcliffe College and her PhD in political science from Harvard University. Her early career included an Assistant Professor position at Harvard (1973-1977) followed by an Associate Professor role (1977-1980). She then moved to Brown University in 1980, where she became the first female faculty member in the political science department. At Brown, she chaired the department and held the Henry Merritt Wriston Professorship. During her tenure there, she published significant works such as *Bentham's Theory of the Modern State* (1980), *Another Liberalism: Romanticism and the Reconstruction of Liberal Thought* (1987), and *Membership and Morals: The Personal Uses of Pluralism in America* (1998). The latter received the David Easton Prize in 2002. She also co-edited several other books and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Kalamazoo College in 1993. Rosenblum returned to Harvard in 2001, taking up her current professorship and being named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She chaired Harvard's government department from 2004 to 2010. Her later works include *On the Side of the Angels: An Appreciation of Parties and Partisanship* (2010), which defends partisanship as a democratic force, and *Good Neighbors: The Democracy of Everyday Life in America* (2016), which explores everyday democracy. In 2020, she co-authored *A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy* with Russell Muirhead, analyzing the rise of conspiracy theories in contemporary politics.