Rate My Professor Jason Stanley

Stanley received a BA from Stony Brook University in 1990 and a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995. He is the author of seven books, including Knowledge and Practical Interests (2005), which received the American Philosophical Association Book Prize in 2007; How Propaganda Works (2015), which received the PROSE Award in Philosophy in 2016; How Fascism Works (2018); The Politics of Language (2023, co-authored with David Beaver); and Erasing History (2024). Stanley has published dozens of scholarly articles and writes for general audiences in outlets such as The New York Times and The Guardian on topics including authoritarianism, propaganda, free speech, mass incarceration, and democracy. He is a member of the Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School, a fellow of the African American Policy Forum, and serves on the advisory board of the Prison Policy Initiative.