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
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Educating Democracy: Alexis de Tocqueville and Leadership in America. SUNY Press, Albany, NY, 2010.
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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.
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"Lincoln and the ‘Necessity’ of Tolerating Slavery before the Civil War.” The Review of Politics 77 (Winter 2015): 47-71.
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“A School or a Stage? Tocqueville and Arendt on Politics and Education.” Perspectives on Political Science 41 (July-September 2012): 117-24.
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“Asking of Freedom Something Other than Itself: Tocqueville, Putnam and the Vocation of the Democratic Moralist.” Politics and Policy 35 (June 2007), 165-90.
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“Lincoln and Tocqueville on Democratic Leadership and Self-Interest Properly Understood.” The Review of Politics 67 (Fall 2005), 687-719.
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“Leo Strauss, George W. Bush, and the Problem of ‘Regime Change.’” Social Policy 34 (Winter/Spring 2004), 35-40.
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“Arendt, Kafka, and the Nature of Totalitarianism.” Perspectives on Political Science 29 (Fall 2000), 211-218.
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“Lincoln, Machiavelli, and American Political Thought.” Presidential Studies Quarterly 30 (June 2000), 290-311.
Work in Progress
Dr. Danoff’s research is in American political thought and modern political theory.
Updated: 2/04/19