Visiting Speakers

Harvey C. Mansfield, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Government, studies and teaches political philosophy. He has written on Edmund Burke and the nature of political parties, on Machiavelli and the invention of indirect government, in defense of a defensible liberalism and in favor of a Constitutional American political science. He has also written on the discovery and development of the theory of executive power, and has translated three books of Machiavelli’s and (with the aid of his wife) Tocqueville's Democracy in America.

Dániel Margócsy is an assistant professor in early modern history at Hunter College, with an interest in the cultural history of science.

Dr. McCormick received his Ph.D. in early modern European history from Columbia University in 2005 and joined the Department of History in 2008. His first book, William Petty and the Ambitions of Political Arithmetic (Oxford University Press, 2009), was awarded the 2010 John Ben Snow Foundation Prize by the North American Conference on British Studies, and his work has been featured in Pour la Science and The London Review of Books.

Maureen N. McLane, Associate Professor of English at New York University, was educated at Harvard, Oxford, and the University of Chicago. She is the author of Balladeering, Minstrelsy, and the Making of British Romantic Poetry (Cambridge University Press, 2008), and Romanticism and the Human Sciences (CUP, 2000, 2006).

Thierry Ménissier is Professeur des Universités, Philosophie et Innovation at Université de Grenoble.

William Milberg first joined The New School for Social Research in 1991 as assistant professor of economics. He became associate professor in 1998, and twice served as chair of the economics department in 1998 to 2001 and 2009 to 2012. His research focuses on globalization, outsourcing, employment and income distribution, international trade policy, and the history and philosophy of economics.

Michael A. Mosher's interests focus upon the history of political philosophy with an emphasis upon the enlightenment philosophe and founding father of the social sciences, Baron Charles-Louis de Montesquieu and his many disciples and critics, including Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Edmund Burke, James Madison, G. W. F. Hegel, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Emile Durkheim.

Samuel Moyn is professor of law and history at Harvard University. He earned a doctorate in modern European history from the University of California-Berkeley in 2000 and a law degree from Harvard Law School in 2001.