Affiliated Research Professor
Joint appointment
Nancy Duke Lewis Professor, Modern Culture and Media (MCM) and Political Science Brown University
Education
Ph.D., Political Science, John Hopkins University
Bio
Professor Honig is an Affiliated Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation and the Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Political Science (and Religious Studies and Theater and Performance Studies, by courtesy) at Brown University.
Honig is author of Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics (Cornell, 1993, Scripps Prize for best first book), Democracy and…
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Research focus
Normative political theory, contemporary democratic theory with particular attention to the area of law and politics. Research addresses how constitutions, legal norms, the centrality of rights, and cultural politics operate to help or hinder spontaneous and organized collective actions in democracies.