Biography:Nadia Urbinati
Nadia Urbinati is a political theorist and the Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory at Columbia University.[1][2][3]
Personal life
In 1989, she received her Ph.D. at European University Institute in Florence, Italy.[1] She is a naturalized American citizen.[2]
Academic work
Urbinati's work 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 Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University and was a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton.[1] In Italy, Urbinati is permanent visiting professor at Pisa's Scuola Superiore de Studi Universitari e Perfezionamento Sant'Anna and has taught at Bocconi University in Milan, SciencesPo in Paris, and the University of Campinas in Brazil.[1]
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
In addition to the books she has edited and co-edited, Urbaniti 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
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 "Nadia Urbinati". Columbia University. https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/nadia-urbinati. Retrieved January 13, 2020.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Vaccara, Stefano; Pozzi, Giulia (May 19, 2019). "Nadia Urbinati: Populism? It’s not Fascism, and also Democracies Are “Elastic”". La Voce di New York. https://www.lavocedinewyork.com/en/news/2019/05/19/nadia-urbinati-populism-its-not-fascism-and-also-democracies-are-elastic/. Retrieved January 13, 2020.
- ↑ Allawala, Katie (November 2, 2016). "The Power of Populism". Foreign Affairs. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/audios/2016-11-02/power-populism. Retrieved January 13, 2020.
- ↑ Mudde, Cas (March 10, 2019). "Ten recommended reads on the contemporary far right and populism by female authors". https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/ten-recommended-reads-on-the-contemporary-far-right-and-populism/.
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