Alex Zakaras

Email: azakaras@pdx.edu
Office: 670A URBN

Professor Zakaras is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Vermont. He is visiting PSU this
year, with a joint appointment in the Political Science Department and the Institute for Sustainable Solutions. He specializes in political philosophy and the history of political thought. His interests include the philosophy of democracy and democratic citizenship, the ideal of autonomy and its place in the liberal tradition, and the political thought of the nineteenth century. His book, Individuality and Mass Democracy: Mill, Emerson, and the Burdens of Citizenship, was published by Oxford University Press in 2009. His is also co-editor of J.S. Mill's Political Thought:
A Bicentennial Reassessment, published by Cambridge University Press in 2007.