Daniel Fram

Daniel Fram (B.A. St. John’s College, Santa Fe, 2001; Ph.D. Michigan State University, 2019) is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Theory at Middlebury College, where he has taught since 2020, following a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University’s Program on Constitutional Government. His research and teaching interests include cosmopolitan and nationalist critiques of liberalism in contemporary political theory, the history of liberalism in modern political thought, and conceptions of moral education and democracy in classical and modern political philosophy. 

Fram’s current book project explores how alternative theories of liberalism relate to the nation-state as a political form. He has articles forthcoming on John Locke’s theory of political obligation by consent, in History of Political Thought, and on Martha Nussbaum’s theories of cosmopolitanism and patriotism, in American Political Thought.