Danielle Allen

Danielle S. Allen (born 1971)^[1] is an American classicist and political scientist, and UPS Foundation Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study.^[2][3]

She graduated from Princeton University with an A.B. in Classics in 1993, from Cambridge University with a Ph.D. in Classics in 1996, and from Harvard University with a Ph.D. in Government in 2001. She taught at University of Chicago, and was Dean of the Division of Humanities from 2004 to 2007. She organized The Dewey Seminar: Education, Schools and the State, with Robert Reich.^[4] She currently serves as a trustee of Princeton University.

Awards and honors

• 2001 Quantrell Award for Excellence ^[5]
• 2002 MacArthur Fellows Program
• 2009 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences^[1]

Works

• "It's Up to Obama", Democracy Issue #16, Spring 2010
• The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens, 2000, (reprint Princeton University Press, 2002, ISBN 9780691094892)
• Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship Since Brown vs. the Board of Education, University of Chicago Press, 2004, ISBN 9780226014661
• Why Plato Wrote, John Wiley & Sons, Limited, 2010, ISBN 9781444334487

References

External links

• "An interview with Danielle S. Allen", University of Chicago Press
• "An Attack That Came Out of the Ether", The Washington Post, Matthew Mosk, June 28, 2008