I'm an Associate Professor of Humanities in The Hamilton School 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) was awarded the 2025 Catherine and Michael Zuckert Book Award from the Association for the History of Political Thought. You can listen to conversations about the book on The Political Theory Review, The Review of Democracy, and the New Books Network podcasts.

I'm currently working on a monograph titled Tocqueville and the Crises of Democracy that explores receptions and interpretations of Alexis de Tocqueville's work in the late 19th and 20th centuries in France, Britain, and the US. I'm also writing articles on the meaning of aristocracy in the 19th century, on debates over the franchise in the American Founding, and on the concept of "civilization." 

You can contact me at genglert at ufl dot edu.