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

Books

• 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.
• Podcasts: Political Theory Review, First Things, No Jargon
• Reviews: Wall Street Journal, Curmudgucation, The American Conservative, Law and Liberty, Independent Institute, Perspectives on Politics, Forbes, The Journal of Politics, Educational Theory, The Journal of Educational Foundations, Democracy & Education
• TV: C-SPAN2 BookTV
• One minute lecture: English, Spanish
• Deleuze's Political Vision, Modernity and Political Thought series, Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.
  • Reviews: Perspectives on Politics, Contemporary Political Theory.
  • Podcast: Always Already
• Kantian Courage: Advancing the Enlightenment in Contemporary Political Theory. Fordham University Press, 2012.
  • Reviews: Perspectives on Politics, The Review of Politics, Contemporary Political Theory, and Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.

Academic Articles

• "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 & 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:
  • Andrew Valls, "Rawls, Islam, and Political Constructivism: Some Questions for Tampio."
  • Nicholas Tampio, "Two Faces of Political Liberalism: A Response to Valls."
• "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.
  

Invited Pieces

• "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 and Review Essays

• "Derailing Fascism." Kairos, vol. 5, no. 1, 2020.
• "War for peace: Genealogies of a violent ideal in western and Islamic political thought" Contemporary Political Theory, 2020.
• "Who Won the Math Wars?" Perspectives on Politics, vol. 15, no. 4, 2017.
• "Is Perpetual Peace Possible?" Political Theory, October 2017.
• "Democracy, Federal Power, and Education Reform." Perspectives on Politics, vol. 14, no. 2, 2016.
• "On the Coptic Question." Contemporary Political Theory, January 12, 2016.
• "Routledge Companion to Ethics, Politics and Organizations." E-International Relations, 2015.
• "Despots, Systematizers, and the Liberal Quandary." Theory & Event, vol. 8, no. 3, 2015.
• "In the Spirit of Critique; Arts of the Political." Perspectives on Politics, vol. 12, no. 4, 2014.
• "Kant's Political Theory." Perspectives on Politics, vol. 11, no. 1, 2013.
• "Islam and the Arab Awakening." The Journal of North African Studies, vol. 18, no. 2, 2013.
• "Rawls, Constructivism, and the Tragic." H-Net, 2011.
• "The Politics of the Eternal Return." Theory & Event, vol. 13, no. 3, 2010.
• "Kant and the Limits of Autonomy." Perspectives on Politics, vol. 7, no. 4, 2009.
• "Redefining Kant's Legacy." Political Theory, vol. 34, no. 6, 2006.
• "Twenty-first Century Enlightenment." The Journal of Politics, vol. 68, no. 2, 2006.
• "Can the Multitude Save the Left?" Theory & Event, vol. 8, no. 2, 2005.

Popular Articles (selection)

• "Kids need to play this summer, not catch up on school" Washington Post, February 22, 2021.
• "Keep the feds out of civics education" Boston Globe, September 23, 2020.
• With Enzo Rossi. "From racial capitalism to woke capitalism." MarketWatch, August 27, 2020
• "Tapping Jim Malatras to lead SUNY, NY shows how not to hire a leader." Journal News, August 26, 2020
• "AP courses do not deserve college credit." Inside Higher Ed, May 26, 2020.
• "Horse farms and career pathways." Los Angeles Review of Books, May 2, 2020.
• "Children learn best when engaged in the living world not on screens." Aeon, August 2, 2018.
• Podcasts: Wisconsin Public Radio, New Zealand Public Radio, Trending in Education
• Hebrew: Alaxion
• "Time to ditch the SAT." US News & World Report, April 13, 2018.
• Interview: WFUV
• "Why rule by the people is better than rule by the experts." Aeon, October 18, 2017.
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