I'm an Associate Professor in The Hamilton Center at the University of Florida. Before coming to UF, I was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Southern Methodist University (SMU). I was previously a postdoctoral research associate at The Political Theory Project at Brown University, and I spent the 2022-23 AY as a visiting research professor at the Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, also at Brown. I hold a Ph.D. in Government from Georgetown University and an M.A. in Liberal Arts from St. John's College Annapolis. 
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My research is in the history of political thought, liberalism (French & Anglo-American), democracy, citizenship and the franchise, and the development of 'the social question.' My work has been published or is forthcoming in History of Political Thought, Modern Intellectual History, Political Theory, Polity, The Political Science Reviewer, The Review of Politics, and The Tocqueville Review. 

My book, Democracy Tamed: French Liberalism and the Politics of Suffrage (OUP 2024) explores French liberals' responses to the advance of democratic equality. You can listen to a conversation about the book on The Political Theory Review podcast. 

I'm currently working on my second book, Tocqueville from The Left, which illuminates Tocqueville's reception by figures on the political and cultural Left in France, Britain, and the United States in the 20th and 21st centuries. 

You can contact me at genglert at ufl dot edu.