We are proud to announce the keynote speaker for the conference: Michael Neblo, Associate Professor of Political Science at Ohio State University and director of the COMPAS program (Conversations on Morality, Politics, and Society) in OSU’s Center for Ethics & Human Values.
His talk will touch on the ways in which immigration and migration are changing electoral politics. Excited by the prospect and challenge of such change, Professor Neblo will discuss how a more deliberative democracy may be emerging – one that calls for more reflective citizenship. For teachers of American Studies, who are curious about moments of change in the American experience, Professor Neblo’s talk should spark much discussion with our colleagues about content, curriculum and pedagogy.
Neblo was previously a fellow in health policy at the University of Michigan and visiting professor in Yale’s program in Ethics, Politics, and Economics. He is currently a visiting fellow at Northwestern University’s Institute for Policy Research. He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Mathematical Social Science from Northwestern.
Most broadly, Neblo’s research investigates how democracies should work, how they actually do work, and practicable ways to narrow the gap between “should” and “do.” He has published widely in political science, philosophy, public policy, communications, psychology, and law. Neblo’s book manuscript, Common Voices: Between the Theory & Practice of Deliberative Democracy, will be published next year by Cambridge University Press, and his next book project analyzes the politics and policy discussions surrounding attempts to reform American immigration law. He has secondary interests in politics and the emotions, race politics, theories of citizenship, politics and technology, and politics and the arts.
He has been the recipient of awards and grants from the American Political Science Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the International Society for Political Psychology, Harvard’s Ash Institute for Democratic Governance, the Veterans Administration, among others.
