I'm an Associate Professor of Humanities in The Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education 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) and a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Brown University. 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 liberalism (French & Anglo-American), democracy, citizenship and the franchise, the history of political economy, and 'the social question.' My work has been published or is forthcoming in the American Journal of Political Science, 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 conversations about the book on The Political Theory Review and The Review of Democracy podcasts.

I'm currently working on two projects. The first is a monograph titled Tocqueville from the Left that explores receptions and interpretations of Alexis de Tocqueville's work by figures on the political and cultural Left in France, Britain, and the US. The second is a series of articles on European liberals' economic, political, and religious responses to the social question. 

You can contact me at genglert at ufl dot edu.