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Bryan Garsten is a Professor (Adjunct) of Law at Yale Law School and a Professor of Political Science and the Humanities at Yale University, serving as Chair of the Humanities Program. He holds a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University (2003), an M.Phil. from Cambridge University (1997), and an A.B. from Harvard College (1996). His research focuses on political theory, rhetoric’s role in governance, political representation, religion in politics, and the intersection of emotions and political life. Garsten is completing a book analyzing early 19th-century liberalism in the U.S. and France, alongside editing scholarly works on Rousseau and Constant.
His teaching excellence earned the 2008 Poorvu Family Prize for Interdisciplinary Teaching. He has directed undergraduate studies in Yale’s Ethics, Politics, and Economics program and graduate studies in Political Science. Garsten’s work bridges historical political thought (e.g., Hobbes, Rousseau, Constant) with contemporary debates on liberalism and representation.
Key publications include Saving Persuasion (2006), which defends rhetoric’s ethical role, and articles on topics like Benjamin Constant’s liberalism, presidential rhetoric, and political theology. His awards include the APSA Foundations of Political Theory First Book Prize.
