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

• John Dewey, Democracy and Education, Edited and with an introduction by Nicholas Tampio, Columbia University Press, 2024.
• Podcast: The New Books Network
• Book discussion: Book launch at Book Culture
• Teaching Political Theory: A Pluralistic Approach, Edward Elgar, 2022.
  • Podcasts: Political Theory Review, New Books Network
  • Book discussion: Collaborative Learning
  • Review: Contemporary Political Theory, Journal of Political Science Education, Journal of Social and Political Philosophy
• 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, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.

Academic Articles

• "'M. and the USA': The Political Teaching of Leo Strauss's Thoughts on Machiavelli." Review of Politics, forthcoming.
• "'A Place Dedicated to Openness of Mind': Why Academic Freedom Protects 'Distasteful' Extramural Speech." Theory & Event, forthcoming.
• "Poetry and Democratic Education." Philosophy and Social Criticism, vol. 52, no. 4, 2026.
• "William James, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Training of Egalitarian Instincts."American Political Thought, vol. 14, no. 4, 2025.
• "The right to dream: Martin Luther King Jr.'s pragmatist argument for racial progress." American Journal of Political Science, vol. 69, no. 4, 2025.
• "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:
  • 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

• "Democracy and Education." De Gruyter Handbook of Democratic Theory, forthcoming.
• "Why Xunzi? A Dilemma for an East Asian Democratic Political Constructivist." The Review of Politics, Firstview.
• "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)

• "Elites and Democracy." Contemporary Political Theory, 2026.
• "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.

Popular Articles and Media Appearances (selection)

• "Will Connecticut vaccine policies push families to move to 'where they are treated like adults'?" CT Insider, March 12, 2026.
• "Homeschools are and should be different from CT public schools." The Hartford Courant, March 10, 2026.
• "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.
• "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.