Jack Turner is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington. He specializes in American political thought, critical race theory, democratic theory, and liberalism and its critics. He is the author of Awakening to Race: Individualism and Social Consciousness in America (University of Chicago Press, 2012). With Melvin L. Rogers, he co-edited African American Political Thought: A Collected History (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming in September 2020).

Research/Teaching Areas:  American Political Development, Constitutional Law, Ethics, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Justice, Law and Society, Minority and Race Politics. Political Theory

Current Projects/Research: Die Your Own Death: Walt Whitman’s Existential Democracy 

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2026 (Accepted for publication; final revisions pending).

“Walt Whitman (1819-1892)” 

The Princeton History of American Political Thought, edited by S. McWilliams Barndt, N. Buccola, R. Montás Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2026, in press.

“Whitman’s Undemocratic Vistas: Mortal Anxiety, National Glory, White Supremacy” 

American Political Science Review 117.2 (May 2023): 705-718.