Nicholas Tampio, Professor of Political Science
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
M.A., Indiana University
B.A., New College of Florida
Address:
665 Faber Hall
441 East Fordham Road
Department of Political Science
Fordham University
Bronx, NY 10458
Email: tampio@fordham.edu
Twitter: @NTampio
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Biography:
Nicholas Tampio is a professor of political science at Fordham University. He has published books on teaching political theory, democracy and national education standards, the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, and the legacy of the Enlightenment in contemporary political theory. Tampio serves as an associate editor of the Journal of Politics and is guest editing a special issue of Perspectives on Politics on political science and the university. He is the faculty advisor to the Fordham Political Review and the Fordham Pi Sigma Alpha chapter. Tampio often writes for public facing outlets such as Aeon, the Boston Globe, and the Conversation. Click here for his CV.
Courses Taught:
Publications
Books
- John Dewey, Democracy and Education, Edited and with an introduction by Nicholas Tampio, Columbia University Press, 2024.
- Teaching Political Theory: A Pluralistic Approach, Edward Elgar, 2022.
- Learning versus the Common Core, University of Minnesota Press, 2019.
- Common Core: National Education Standards and the Threat to Democracy, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.
- Deleuze's Political Vision, Modernity and Political Thought series, Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.
- Kantian Courage: Advancing the Enlightenment in Contemporary Political Theory, Fordham University Press, 2012.
Academic Articles
- "Poetry and Democratic Education." Philosophy and Social Criticism, Online First.
- "The right to dream: Martin Luther King Jr.'s pragmatist argument for racial progress." American Journal of Political Science, Early View.
- "Time for religion? Liberalism, Haredi Jews, and state regulation of nonpublic schools." Politics and Religion, vol. 16, no. 2, 2023.
- "The Misguided Quest for a Constitutional Right to Education." Phi Delta Kappan, vol. 102, no. 6, 2021.
- "A Democratic Critique of the Common Core English Language Arts (ELA) Standards." Democracy & Education, vol. 26, no. 1, 2018.
- "Democracy and National Education Standards." Journal of Politics, vol. 79, no. 1, 2017.
- "Green Allies: Speculative Realism, Evangelical Christianity, and Political Pluralism," Political Theology, vol. 17, no. 6, 2016.
- "Entering Deleuze's Political Vision." Deleuze Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, 2014.
- "Promoting Critical Islam: Controversy, Civil Society, Revolution." Politics and Religion, vol. 6, no. 4, 2013.
- "The Politics of the Garden (pairadaeza)." Theory & Event, vol 16, no. 2, 2013.
- "A Defense of Political Constructivism." Contemporary Political Theory, vol. 11, no. 3, 2012. See also:
- "Constructing the Space of Testimony: Tariq Ramadan's Copernican Revolution." Political Theory, vol. 39, no. 5, 2011.
- "Assemblages and the Multitude: Deleuze, Hardt, Negri, and the Postmodern Left." European Journal of Political Theory, vol. 8, no. 3, 2009.
- "Rawls and the Kantian Ethos." Polity, vol. 39, no.1, 2007.
- "Writing Political Theory: Lessons from an Apprenticeship." PS: Political Science & Politics, vol. 38, no. 3, 2005.
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Invited Pieces
- "Why Xunzi? A Dilemma for an East Asian Democratic Political Constructivist." The Review of Politics, forthcoming.
- "Democracy and Education." De Gruyter Handbook of Democratic Theory, forthcoming.
- "Kantian Perfectionists, Muslim Perfectionists, and Intelligent Devils." The Political Science Reviewer, vol. 47, no. 3, 2023.
- "What if Neoliberalism Captures the Human Rights Establishment? Sustainable Development Goal 4 and the Global Education Reform Movement." Human Rights Review, vol. 19 no. 3, 2018.
- "Bonnie Honig, Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics." The Oxford Handbook of Classics in Contemporary Political Theory, 2016.
- "Political Theory and the Untimely." Political Theory, 2016.
- "Islamic Political Thought." Encyclopedia of Political Thought, Wiley Blackwell, 2014.
- "Metaphysics and Postmetaphysics." Encyclopedia of Political Thought, Wiley Blackwell, 2014.
- "Pluralism in the Ethical Community." In Kant's Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason: A Critical Guide, Cambridge University Press, 2014.
- "What if the Pious Don't Want to Deliberate?" Political Theory, vol. 42, no. 1, 2014.
- "Multiplicity." Encyclopedia of Political Theory, Sage Publications, 2010.
Book Reviews (selection)
- "Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment." The Review of Politics, 2025.
- "The Two Faces of Democracy: Decentering Agonism and Deliberation." American Political Thought, 2024.
- "Deparochializing Political Theory." Constellations, 2024.
- "Training Political Scientists." Journal of Political Science Education, 2023.
- "Tongdong Bai, Leo Strauss, and the Question of Political Philosophy." Journal of Social and Political Philosophy, 2022.
- "Is Perpetual Peace Possible?" Political Theory, October 2017.
- "Despots, Systematizers, and the Liberal Quandary." Theory & Event, vol. 8, no. 3, 2015.
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Popular Articles and Media Appearances (selection)
- "There is no homeschooling crisis in Connecticut." The Hartford Courant, May 27, 2025.
- "Out of Balance: Higher education needs to increase conservative content in the humanities." Liberal Education, December 20, 2024.
- "The problem with making all academic research free." The Boston Globe, March 25, 2024.
- "Johns Hopkins needs to drop its COVID-19 vaccine mandate." The Baltimore Sun, March 11, 2024.
- "New York politicians must use reasonable language about Israel and Palestine." The Journal News, February 22, 2024.
- "Why John Dewey's vision for education and democracy still resonates today." The Conversation, February 9, 2024.
- "Should AI be permitted in college classrooms? 4 scholars weigh in." The Conversation, September 4, 2023.
- "Scepticism is a way of life that allows democracy to flourish." Aeon, March 25, 2022.
- "The weak constitutional case for vaccine mandates." The Boston Globe, August 25, 2021.
- "Vaccine mandates will backfire. People will resist even more." Washington Post, July 31, 2021.
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