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

• Teaching Political Theory: A Pluralistic Approach, Edward Elgar, September 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.
• Podcasts: Political Theory Review, First Things, No Jargon
• Reviews: Wall Street Journal, The American Conservative, Law and Liberty, Independent Institute, Perspectives on Politics, The Journal of Politics, Educational Theory
• 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 (selection)

• "Tongdong Bai, Leo Strauss, and the Question of Political Philosophy" Journal of Social and Political Philosophy, 2022.
• "Deweyan experimentalism and the problem of method in political philosophy" Contemporary Political Theory, 2021.
• "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.
• "Despots, Systematizers, and the Liberal Quandary." Theory & Event, vol. 8, no. 3, 2015.

Popular Articles and Media Appearances (selection)

• "Scepticism is a way of life that allows democracy to flourish." Aeon, March 25, 2022.
• "NY Regents plans for nonpublic schools are terrible." Journal News, March 18, 2022.
• "The weak constitutional case for vaccine mandates." The Boston Globe, August 25, 2021.
• "Debate with Dr. Leana Wen about vaccine mandates." CNN New Day, August 2, 2021.
• "Vaccine mandates will backfire. People will resist even more." Washington Post, July 31, 2021.
• "How a national student database could cheapen the college experience." The Conversation, June 1, 2021.
• "How much money do English majors make? Don’t ask." The Boston Globe, May 2, 2021.
• "How Biden’s request for more education funding would shift more power to the federal government." The Conversation, April 26, 2021.
• "Kids need to play this summer, not catch up on school." Washington Post, February 22, 2021.