Keegan Callanan

Keegan Callanan has teaching responsibilities in the history of political philosophy and contemporary political theory. He is author of Montesquieu’s Liberalism and the Problem of Universal Politics (Cambridge, 2018) and co-editor of the Cambridge Companion to Montesquieu (Cambridge, 2023). His writing has appeared in publications such as History of Political Thought, Political Research Quarterly, and the Wall Street Journal. Mr. Callanan has held fellowships at Princeton University and the University of Virginia. He was a member of the Executive Council of the New England Political Science Association, and he was appointed to the National Council on the Humanities in 2019. He also serves as Director of the Alexander Hamilton Forum on the American Political Tradition at Middlebury. For the 2020-2021 academic year, he will hold a visiting research fellowship at Princeton University’s James Madison Program on American Ideals and Institutions. A graduate of Bowdoin College, Mr. Callanan received his MA and PhD from Duke.