I'm an Associate Professor 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). 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 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 two projects. The first is a series of articles on Left-leaning receptions and interpretations of Alexis de Tocqueville's work in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The second is a book manuscript on European liberals' political and economic responses to the social question. 

You can contact me at genglert at ufl dot edu.