Rate My Professor Steve Johnston

Johnston has authored five monographs published by leading academic presses: Encountering Tragedy: Rousseau and the Project of Democratic Order (Cornell University Press, 1999), The Truth about Patriotism (Duke University Press, 2007), American Dionysia: Violence, Tragedy, and Democratic Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2015), Lincoln: The Ambiguous Icon (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018), and Wonder and Cruelty: Ontological War in "It's a Wonderful Life" (Lexington Books, 2019). His numerous peer-reviewed articles appear in journals such as Political Theory, Theory & Event, Contemporary Political Theory, and Political Research Quarterly. Notable publications include "Lincoln's Decisionism and the Politics of Elimination" (Political Theory, 2017), "Animals in War: Commemoration, Patriotism, Death" (Political Research Quarterly, 2012), "Must We Always Mourn? A War on Terror Veterans Memorial" (2019), and "John Ford's Legendary Western Ambiguity and White Settler Colonialism" (2023). Johnston serves on the editorial board of Theory & Event and teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in modern and contemporary political theory, globalization and international politics, democratic theory, and politics and literature.