Dr. Brian Danoff

Associate Professor
Graduate Studies Director

PHONE: 513-529-0160
OFFICE: 212 Harrison Hall
EMAIL: danoffbf@miamioh.edu

Degrees and Institutions

Ph.D., Political Science, Rutgers University
M.A., Liberal Studies, The New School for Social Research
B.A., Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz

Selected Publications

Why Moralize upon It? Democratic Education through American Literature and Film. Lexington Books, Lanham, MD, 2020.
Educating Democracy: Alexis de Tocqueville and Leadership in America. SUNY Press, Albany, NY, 2010.
Alexis de Tocqueville and the Art of Democratic Statesmanship, (ed. with Joseph Hebert). Lexington Books, Lanham, MD, 2011.
"Invisible Man and Democratic Leadership." American Political Thought 8 (Winter 2019): 54-81.
“‘I’m the Captain Now’: Power, Justice, and Tragedy in ‘Benito Cereno’ and Captain Phillips.” American Political Thought 6 (Winter 2017): 30-53.
"Lincoln and the ‘Necessity’ of Tolerating Slavery before the Civil War.” The Review of Politics 77 (Winter 2015): 47-71.
“A School or a Stage? Tocqueville and Arendt on Politics and Education.” Perspectives on Political Science 41 (July-September 2012): 117-24.
“Asking of Freedom Something Other than Itself: Tocqueville, Putnam and the Vocation of the Democratic Moralist.” Politics and Policy 35 (June 2007), 165-90.
“Lincoln and Tocqueville on Democratic Leadership and Self-Interest Properly Understood.” The Review of Politics 67 (Fall 2005), 687-719.
“Leo Strauss, George W. Bush, and the Problem of ‘Regime Change.’” Social Policy 34 (Winter/Spring 2004), 35-40.
“Arendt, Kafka, and the Nature of Totalitarianism.” Perspectives on Political Science 29 (Fall 2000), 211-218.
“Lincoln, Machiavelli, and American Political Thought.” Presidential Studies Quarterly 30 (June 2000), 290-311.