Lawrie Balfour

Lawrie Balfour is an American philosopher and James Hart Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia. She is known for her works on political theory.

Balfour was the Editor of Political Theory: An International Journal of Political Philosophy between 2017 and 2021. In 2020, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in American Literature.

Books Toni Morrison: Imagining Freedom, Oxford University Press, 2023 Democracy's Reconstruction: Thinking Politically with W.E.B. Du Bois, Oxford University Press, 2011 The Evidence of Things Not Said: James Baldwin and the Promise of American Democracy, Cornell University Press, 2000