About
Michael Mosher was a first generation student who hopped a bus from North Dakota to California to work in a Safeway store and found intellectual shelter at Berkeley and then Harvard. He was twice a visiting lecturer at Yale, twice a Fulbright recipient to Japan, a research visitor at Le Centre de recherches internationales (CERI) in Paris and at the School of Social Sciences in the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Recent publications include: (1) With Anna Plassart, The Culture of Democracy in the Age of Enlightenment, London: Bloomsbury Press, 2021; (2) “Internationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and Empires” in the 2023 Cambridge Companion to Montesquieu; and (3) “Persian Letters in Time” in The Spirit of Montesquieu’s Persian Letters, 2023. He teaches political theory and comparative politics including a study abroad J Term in Tokyo. He also teaches in the Honors College, currently, The History and Philosophy of Science. At TU Mosher was Chair of Political Science for many years and for six years Assistant to the President for International Affairs.
Awards and Honors
Invited 2023 to give two lectures, in Law and in Philosophy, at Fudan University in Shanghai
Education
- Ph.D., Harvard University
Dissertation: “The Spirit That Governs Cities: Modes of Human Association in the Writings of Montesquieu and Hegel” - M.A., Harvard University
- B.A., University of California, Berkeley
Research interests and areas of expertise
- History of political thought
- Political philosophy
- Political theory