Last November, UCHV held a book talk on What is Populism, Professor Jan-Werner Müller's timely book released in September 2016. 

Princeton recently announced that President Eisgruber selected it for the Class of 2021 pre-read.

Jan-Werner Müller is Professor of Politics and he sits on the UCHV Executive Committee. He is also the Director of the Center's History of Political Thought Project. Professor Müller's research interests include the history of modern political thought, liberalism and its critics, nationalism, and the normative dimensions of European integration. He is the author of A Dangerous Mind: Carl Schmitt in Post-War European Thought (2003) and Another Country: German Intellectuals, Unification and National Identity (2000). In addition, he has edited German Ideologies since 1945: Studies in the Political Thought and Culture of the Bonn Republic (2003) and Memory and Power in Post-War Europe: Studies in the Presence of the Past (2002). His book Constitutional Patriotism was published by Princeton University Press in 2007. He has been a fellow at the Collegium Budapest Institute for Advanced Study; Harvard University; the Remarque Institute, New York University; and the Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute, Florence. He has also taught as a visiting professor at the EHESS, Paris. He serves on the editorial boards of the European Journal of Political Theory, the Journal of Contemporary History, and Raison Publique: Revue Internationale de Philosophie Pratique et Appliquée.

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