Scholarship and Biography

Jeffrey Lenowitz is the Meyer and W. Walter Jaffe Associate Professor of Politics, focusing on political theory. His research explores the historical origins, normative implications, and empirical effects of the procedures uses to create new constitutions; the meaning and use of concept of legitimacy in the social sciences; the use of punishment to sanction elites; constituent power; and other various aspects of democratic theory and institutional design.

Honors

Theodore and Jane Norman Fund for Faculty Research and Creative Projects
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 2019

Organizational Affiliations

Meyer and W. Walter Jaffe Associate Professor of Politics, Department of Politics, Brandeis University

Affiliated Faculty, Interdepartmental Program in History of Ideas, Brandeis University

Education

Columbia University in the City of New York
Ph.D.
Columbia University in the City of New York
M.Phil.
University of Virginia-Main Campus
B.A.