Jan-Werner Müller

Jan-Werner Müller is Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences and Professor of Politics at Princeton University. He works mainly in democratic theory and the history of modern political thought; he also has research interests in the relationship between architecture and politics, as well as the normative implications of the current structural transformations of the public sphere. Publications include Constitutional Patriotism (2007), Contesting Democracy: Political Ideas in Twentieth-Century Europe (2011) and What is Populism? (2016), which has been translated into more than 20 languages. Müller is a cofounder of the European College of Liberal Arts, Berlin (ECLA; today: Bard Berlin), Germany’s first private, English-speaking liberal arts college, for which he served as founding research director. Müller has studied at Freie Universität Berlin, University College London, St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and Princeton University.