Michael Zuckert

Jack Miller Center Academic Advisory Council Member
Nancy R. Dreux Professor of Political Science, Emeritus, University of Notre Dame

Michael P. Zuckert is the Nancy R. Dreux Professor of Political Science, Emeritus. He has published extensively in both Political Theory and Constitutional Studies. His books include Natural Rights and the New Republicanism, the Natural Rights RepublicLaunching Liberalism, and (with Catherine Zuckert) The Truth About Leo Strauss and Leo Strauss and the Problem of Political Philosophy, in addition to many articles. He has also edited The Spirit of Religion & the Spirit of Liberty and (with Derek Webb) The Antifederal Writings of the Melancton Smith Circle. He is completing Natural Rights and the New Constitutionalism, a study of American constitutionalism in a theoretical context.

Professor Zuckert taught graduate and undergraduate courses in Political Philosophy and Theory, American Political Thought, American Constitutional Law, American Constitutional History, Constitutional Theory, and Philosophy of Law. His advising specialties were graduate programs in political science.

He co-authored and co-produced a public radio series, Mr. Adams and Mr. Jefferson: A Nine-Part Drama for the RadioHe was also a senior scholar for Liberty!  (1997), a six-hour public television series on the American Revolution, and served as senior advisor on the PBS series on Benjamin Franklin (2002) and Alexander Hamilton (2007).

Zuckert has received grants from NEH, the Woodrow Wilson Center, Earhart Foundation, and NSF, and has taught at Carleton College, Cornell University, Claremont Men’s College, Fordham University, the University of Minnesota, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, the University of Chicago, and Arizona State University.

Zuckert is the founding editor of American Political Thought, A Journal of Ideas, Institutions, and Culture. Published by The University of Chicago Press in association with the Jack Miller Center and the Notre Dame Program in Constitutional Studies. Bridging the gap between historical, empirical, and theoretical research, American Political Thought (APT) is the only journal dedicated exclusively to the study of American political thought.

Research interests:
Political theory
Constitutional studies

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