Nadia Urbinati is an Italian political theorist, the Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory at

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Personal life

In 1989, she received her Ph.D. at

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Florence, Italy Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilancio demografico an ...

. She is also a naturalized US citizen.

Academic work

Urbinati specializes in modern and contemporary political thought and the democratic and anti-democratic traditions. She teaches at Columbia University where she co-chaired the Columbia University Faculty Seminar on Political and Social Thought. She is one of the longest-serving scholars of populism in modern academia. With

Andrew Arato Andrew Arato ( hu, Arató András ; born 22 August 1944) is a professor of Political and Social Theory in the Department of Sociology at The New School, best known for his influential book ''Civil Society and Political Theory'', coauthored with ...

, she was the co-editor of ''Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory''. She is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Foundation Reset Dialogues on Civilization. Prior to Columbia, she was a member of the School of Social Sciences of the

Institute for Advanced Study The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), located in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States, is an independent center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. It has served as the academic home of internationally preeminent scholar ...

in Princeton, New Jersey and was a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton. 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 Bocconi University ( it, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, ) is a private university in Milan, Italy. Bocconi provides education in the fields of economics, finance, law, management, political science, public administration and computer sci ...

in Milan, SciencesPo in Paris, and the

University of Campinas The State University of Campinas ( pt, Universidade Estadual de Campinas), commonly called Unicamp, is a public research university in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Unicamp is consistently ranked among the top universities in Brazil and Latin ...

in Brazil.

Awards

In 2008, Italian president

Giorgio Napolitano Giorgio Napolitano (; born 29 June 1925) is an Italian politician who served as president of Italy from 2006 to 2015, the first Italian president to be re-elected to the presidency. Due to his dominant position in Italian politics, some critics ...

made Urbanati a Commander of the

Order of Merit of the Italian Republic The Order of Merit of the Italian Republic ( it, Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana) is the senior Italian order of merit. It was established in 1951 by the second President of the Italian Republic, Luigi Einaudi. The highest-ranking ...

"for her contribution to the study of democracy and the diffusion of Italian liberal and democratic thought abroad." 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.

Bibliography

Urbinati is the author of a number of journal articles and books, including: *''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.

References

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