Democracy and Governance Studies

Richard Boyd is Associate Professor of Government. His research interests include the intellectual history of liberalism, civil society and pluralism, economic and sociological theory, post-colonialism, and the theory and practice of immigration and citizenship policies in the United States. He is author of Uncivil Society: The Perils of Pluralism and the Making of Modern Liberalism (2004), and editor/ translator of two other books. His articles have appeared or are shortly forthcoming in Review of Politics, Journal of Politics, Political Theory, Political Studies, History of Political Thought, Polity, European Journal of Political Theory, Urban Studies, Social Philosophy & Policy, Social Science Quarterly, Critical Review, and other journals. He is currently completing a book-length manuscript titled “Membership and Belonging: On the Boundaries of Liberal Political Theory.” Before coming to Georgetown University in 2007, Boyd taught at the University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Deep Springs College.