Nadia Urbinati
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Nadia Urbinati is an Italian political theorist, the Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory at Columbia University.[1][2][3]
Personal life
In 1989, she received her Ph.D. at
Academic work
Urbinati specializes in modern and contemporary political thought and the democratic and anti-democratic traditions.[1] She teaches at Columbia University where she co-chaired the Columbia University Faculty Seminar on Political and Social Thought.[1] She is one of the longest-serving scholars of populism in modern academia.[4]
With Andrew Arato, she was the co-editor of Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory.[1] She is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Foundation Reset Dialogues on Civilization.[1]
Prior to Columbia, she was a member of the School of Social Sciences of the
Awards
In 2008, Italian president Giorgio Napolitano made Urbanati a Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic "for her contribution to the study of democracy and the diffusion of Italian liberal and democratic thought abroad."[1]
She is the winner of the 2008-9 Lenfest/Columbia Distinguished Faculty Award and she received the David and Elaine Spitz Prize for the best book in liberal and democratic theory for Mill on Democracy.[1]
Bibliography
Urbinati is the author of a number of journal articles and books, including:[1]
- Me The People: How Populism Transforms Democracy (Harvard University Press, 2019)
- The Tyranny of the Moderns (Yale University Press 2015)
- Democracy Disfigured: Opinion, Truth and the People (Harvard University Press, 2014)
- Representative Democracy: Principles and Genealogy (University of Chicago Press, 2006)
- Mill on Democracy: From the Athenian Polis to Representative Government (University of Chicago Press, 2002)
Urbinati is also a political columnist for Italian newspapers.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Nadia Urbinati". Columbia University. Retrieved January 13, 2020.
- ^ a b Vaccara, Stefano; Pozzi, Giulia (May 19, 2019). "Nadia Urbinati: Populism? It's not Fascism, and also Democracies Are "Elastic"". La Voce di New York. Retrieved January 13, 2020.
- ^ Allawala, Katie (November 2, 2016). "The Power of Populism". Foreign Affairs. Retrieved January 13, 2020.
- ^ Mudde, Cas (March 10, 2019). "Ten recommended reads on the contemporary far right and populism by female authors".