Rita Koganzon
Jack Miller Center Academic Advisory Council Member
Associate Professor in the School of Civic Life and Leadership,
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Rita Koganzon is an associate professor in the School of Civic Life and Leadership at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Her research focuses on the themes of education, childhood, authority, and the family in historical and contemporary political thought. Her first book was Liberal States, Authoritarian Families: Childhood and Education in Early Modern Thought (Oxford, 2021). Her research has been published in the American Political Science Review, American Political Thought, the Review of Politics, and the History of Education Quarterly, as well as in several edited volumes.
She also contributes regular book reviews and essays to the Hedgehog Review, National Affairs, The Point, and the Chronicle of Higher Education, among others. She previously taught at the University of Houston and the University of Virginia.
Research interests:
History of ancient, modern, and American political thought
Themes of education, childhood, authority, and the family in historical and contemporary political thought
