OSUN Faculty

Ewa Atanassow

Ewa Atanassow’s teaching and research range across the history of political thought focusing on alternative conceptions of modernity, and on the way key modern principles such as sovereignty, nationhood, democratic citizenship, globalization, or post-coloniality have been understood in different geo-political contexts. Her published work examines the interrelation between liberalism, democracy, and empire, and the diverse trajectories of democratization and nation-building in the West and beyond, with an emphasis on Tocqueville. She is the author of Tocqueville's Dilemmas and Ours: Sovereignty, Nationalism, Globalization (Princeton University Press, 2022); and the co-editor of Tocqueville and the Frontiers of Democracy with Richard Boyd (Cambridge University Press, 2013), of Liberal Moments: Reading Liberal Texts with Alan S. Kahan (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017), and of When the People Rule: Popular Sovereignty in Theory and Practice with Thomas Bartscherer and David Bateman (Cambridge University Press, 2023).