Rate My Professor Jeffrey Isaac

Isaac's research focuses on political theory, including the political thought of Hannah Arendt and Albert Camus, power, democracy, civil society, Marxism, liberalism, and the politics of dissent. He has authored five books—Power and Marxist Theory: A Realist View (Cornell University Press, 1987), Arendt, Camus and Modern Rebellion (Yale University Press, 1992), Democracy in Dark Times (Cornell University Press, 1998), The Poverty of Progressivism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), and #AgainstTrump: Notes from Year One (OR Books, 2018)—and edited America Through European Eyes (co-edited, Penn State University Press, 2009) and a new edition of The Communist Manifesto (Yale University Press, 2012). With over 75 articles in journals such as American Political Science Review, Political Theory, and Social Research, his scholarship has shaped debates on realism, rebellion, and democratic theory. As Editor-in-Chief of Perspectives on Politics from 2009 to 2017, he received the American Political Science Association's 2017 Frank J. Goodnow Award for Distinguished Service, along with honors including a Doctoris Honoris Causa from Romania's SNSPA (2018), NEH Summer Fellowship (1990), and Indiana University Outstanding Young Faculty Award (1990). Isaac contributes as a Contributing Editor to Public Seminar and Dissent, and serves on the IU Sweatshop Advisory Committee and Bloomington's Safe and Civil City Program Advisory Board.