Notes on Contributors
Claudia Franziska Brühwiler
holds a doctorate in political science (Dr. rer. publ.) from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, where she has also obtained her venia legendi (Habilitation/PD) in American studies. Her first book, Political Initiation in the Novels of Philip Roth (Bloomsbury, 2013), combines findings from political science and anthropology with literary studies. In her research, she focuses on the interplay of politics and literature, American political thought, and American political culture. Her work has appeared in PS, Journal of American Studies, Canadian Review of American Studies, and Philip Roth Studies.
Guillermo Graíño Ferrer
is professor of political theory at the Universidad Francisco de Vitoria de Madrid, and the director of its Center for the Study of Democracy. He has been visiting professor at Villanova University and LUISS Guido Carli, and visiting researcher at the University of Toronto and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Graíño Ferrer has PhDs in political science (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) and philosophy (Fondazione San Carlo di Modena), and has edited and translated French Philosophy Classics into Spanish for Alianza Editorial.
Sam Cherribi
(PhD, University of Amsterdam) is a senior lecturer in the Department of Middle East and South Asian Studies and an associate senior lecturer in the Department of Economics at Emory University. He also directs the Emory Development Initiative, which promotes development in low-income countries and works with the faculty of Emory’s Institute of Human Rights. Prior to moving to Emory in 2003, Cherribi served as a Member of Parliament in the Netherlands for two consecutive four-year terms (1994–2002), during which time he also represented the Netherlands in the Assembly of the Council of Europe and the Assembly of the West European Union. Cherribi’s book In the House of War: Dutch Islam Observed was published in paperback in 2013 by Oxford University Press. His most recent books are Fridays of Rage: Aljazeera and the Arab Spring (Oxford University Press, 2017), and Les Imams Marocains Face au Libéralisme (Bouregreg, 2018).
Yvon Grenier
is professor of political science at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, Canada. He is the author of Culture and the Cuban State: Participation, Recognition, and Dissonance under Communism (2017), Gunshots at the Fiesta: Literature and Politics in Latin America (with Maarten Van Delden, 2009), From Art and Politics: Octavio Paz and the Pursuit of Freedom (2001; Spanish trans. 2004), The Emergence of Insurgency in El Salvador (1999), and Guerre et pouvoir au Salvador (1994). He is a contributing editor of the magazine Literal, Latin American Voices.
John von Heyking
is professor of political science at the University of Lethbridge, where he teaches political philosophy. He is the author of Comprehensive Judgment and Absolute Selflessness: Winston Churchill on Politics as Friendship (St. Augustine’s Press, 2018), The Form of Politics: Aristotle and Plato on Friendship (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016), and Augustine and Politics as Longing in the World (University of Missouri Press, 2001). He has coedited numerous books, including volumes 7 and 8 of the Collected Works of Eric Voegelin (University of Missouri Press) with Thomas Heilke and, most recently, Wherefrom Does History Emerge? Inquiries in Political Cosmogony (De Gruyter, 2020) with Tilo Schabert. He has published scholarly articles on topics including friendship, cosmopolitanism, liberal education, empire, Islamic political thought, punishment, and religious liberty in Canada.
Michael S. Kochin
is associate professor in the School of Political Science, Government and International Affairs at Tel Aviv University and has held visiting appointments at Yale, Princeton, Toronto, Claremont McKenna College, and the Catholic University of America. He has written widely on the comparative analysis of institutions, political thought, politics and literature, and political rhetoric. Kochin has published three books: An Independent Empire: Diplomacy & War in the Making of the United States, 1776–1826 (with historian Michael Taylor, University of Michigan Press, 2020), Five Chapters on Rhetoric: Character, Action, Things, Nothing, and Art (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009), and Gender and Rhetoric in Plato’s Political Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2002).
Alexander Orwin
is assistant professor in political science at Louisiana State University. He earned a PhD from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is the author of the book Redefining the Muslim Community: Ethnicity, Religion, and Politics in the Thought on Alfarabi (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017), and several articles on Alfarabi, Ibn Khaldun, Averroes, and Plato. In contributing to this volume, he drew upon a year spent studying at the École des Hauts Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
Neil Rogachevsky
is associate director and research fellow at the Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University, where he researches and teaches Israeli studies, political philosophy, and European history. He received his PhD in nineteenth-century French history from the University of Cambridge in 2014. His scholarship and essays have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The American Interest, Mosaic, Ha’aretz, City Journal, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, French History, and other publications. He is currently working on a book on constitutional questions debated at the founding of Israel.
Henry F. Smith
(MD, Harvard Medical School) is the former editor of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly and the author of over 100 articles on the theory and practice of psychoanalysis, including its reflection in the arts. His papers have received numerous awards and have been translated into French, Italian, and Spanish. Currently on the faculty of the China American Psychoanalytic Alliance, he maintains a private practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Cambridge, MA.
Alberto Spektorowski
is an associate professor at the School of Political Science, Government and International Affairs at Tel Aviv University. His fields of interest are in the intersection of comparative politics and political theory, and has written widely about the ideology of fascism and the radical right in Europe and Latin America. His books include the edited volume Ethnic Challenges to the Modern Nation State (Macmillan, 2000); Argentina’s Revolution of the Right (University of Notre Dame Press, 2003); Autoritarios y Populistas. Los Origenes del Fascismo en la Argentina (Lumiere, 2013); with Liza Saban, Politics of Eugenics: Productionism, Population & National Welfare (Routledge Press, 2013); and with Dafna Elfersy, From multiculturalism to democratic discrimination. The Challenge of Islam and the Re-emergence of Europe’s Nationalism (University of Michigan Press, 2020).