AMS 2010

Civil Discourse and the American Political Order

Fall 2025
Class # 26728
CSE 0429
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
MWF 1:55 PM - 2:45 PM

Course Syllabus

Instructor

Gianna Englert

Associate Professor of Humanities
CSE 0546
W 12:00 PM-2:00 PM and by appointment

Gianna Englert is Associate Professor of Humanities in the Hamilton School. She previously taught at Southern Methodist University and has held visiting research fellowships at Brown University’s Political Theory Project and its Center for Philosophy, Politics and Economics. Her research is in the history of political thought, liberalism (French and Anglo-American), democracy, citizenship, and the development of ‘the social question’. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in History of Political Thought, Modern Intellectual History, Political Theory, PolityThe Political Science ReviewerThe Review of Politics, and The Tocqueville Review. Her book, Democracy Tamed: French Liberalism and the Politics of Suffrage (Oxford University Press, 2024) explores French liberals’ responses to the advance of democratic equality.

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