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Jeremy Fortier

Assistant Director
Associate Professor of Practice
Jeremy fortier

Dr. Jeremy Fortier's research and teaching cover early modern, late modern, and contemporary political thought. His scholarly work has appeared in academic journals including Critical Review, American Political Thought, Polity, The Review of Politics, and The Journal of Politics. His research has been awarded support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. 

He has published articles and organized symposia regarding civics as a subject of academic scholarship and college curricula. His most recent article is “Why to be a Civic Constitutionalist.” He currently is writing about civic constitutionalism as a response to theories of constitutional revolution. 

He is broadly interested in how people react to realizing that they have been wrong. This was a theme of his book, The Challenge of Nietzsche (University of Chicago Press). He is now working on Nietzsche’s engagement with the autobiographical or self-reflective writings of authors such as Montaigne and Emerson, who shared with Nietzsche the experience of having to acknowledge that they had been wrong in some important respect partway through their careers as published authors and public figures. 

Previously, Dr. Fortier was a student at the University of Toronto and held faculty appointments in Political Science at Colgate University and The City College of New York.

 

Areas of Expertise

  • Early modern, late modern, and contemporary political thought
  • Civic studies, civic thought, and civic constitutionalism 
  • Curriculum