Thomas Merrill

Adivitional Positions at AU

Associate Director, Political Theory Institute

Degrees

Ph.D, MA, Duke University

AB, Fundamentals: Issues and Texts

Bio

Thomas Merrill is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Affairs. He is the author of Hume and the Politics of Enlightenment (Cambridge, 2015), which won the Delba Winthrop Prize for Best Recent Work in Political Philosophy. He is also the co-editor of three edited volumes, including The Political Thought of the Civil War (University Press of Kansas, summer 2018) and has held fellowships from Harvard, Princeton, and the American Enterprise Institute. He was a senior research analyst for the President’s Council on Bioethics during the George W. Bush administration and is the Associate Director of the Political Theory Institute at American University, which has hosted many public intellectuals from across the political spectrum as well as many academic political theorists. He has served as coordinator of the undergraduate program in Government and, more recently, as chair of the Department of Government.

Spring 2018

GOVT-105 Indiv Freedom vs Auth

Fall 2018

CORE-106 Complex Problems Seminar: Social Justice/Libertarianism?

GOVT-105 Indiv Freedom vs Auth