Nancy Lipton Rosenblum

Nancy Lipton Rosenblum (born November 10, 1947) is an American political scientist and political philosopher. She is the Senator Joseph S. Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government at Harvard University and has been the co-editor of the Annual Review of Political Science (2015 to 2023). She studies modern political thought and constitutional law. Rosenblum has been the Chair of both the government department at Harvard and the political science department at Brown University, and a member of the leadership of several professional organizations in political science and political philosophy.

Early life and education Rosenblum was born on November 10, 1947. She was the oldest of seven children born to an economist father and social worker mother who divorced. Most of her youth was spent in Teaneck, New Jersey. Rosenblum earned a Bachelor of Arts from Radcliffe College and a Doctor of Philosophy in political science from Harvard University.

Career Upon earning her PhD, Rosenblum accepted the Henry LaBarre Jayne Assistant Professor position at Harvard University's Department of Government from 1973 until 1977. She was promoted to associate professor in 1977 and in 1980 she moved to Brown University.

Upon joining the political science department at Brown in 1980, Rosenblum became their first female faculty member in history. During her time at Brown, she was the chairperson of the political science department and the Henry Merritt Wriston Professor. In 1993, Rosenblum was awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters by Kalamazoo College. which received the David Easton Prize in 2002 by the Foundations of Political Theory. In Membership and Morals, Rosenblum uses historical research and legal analysis to argue that courts have interpreted individuals' belonging to political organizations mainly in terms of how their participation advances the organization's formal political goals, whereas it is necessary to also consider how affiliation with an association can serve an expressive purpose. Rosenblum was also an editor of Liberalism and the Moral Life (1993), Thoreau: Political Writings, Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought (1996), and Obligations of Citizenship and Demands of Faith: Religious Accommodation in Pluralist Democracies (2000). She also edited Civil Society and Government with Robert Post and Breaking the Cycles of Hatred: Memory, Law, and Repair, and was appointed chair of the department of government. She was the department chair from 2004 to 2010.

Rosenblum was named the recipient of a Walter Channing Cabot Fellowship for "distinguished accomplishments in the fields of literature, history, or art, broadly conceived", awarded for On the Side of the Angels, and was elected the vice-president of the American Political Science Association. In Good Neighbors, Rosenblum argues that neighborliness is a type of everyday democracy that is practiced well in the real world but has received minimal scholarly attention, in contrast to "citizenship", which has received a great deal of theorizing but is practiced poorly in the real world.

Personal life Rosenblum and her husband Richard had one daughter together, Anna Rosenblum Palmer. After Richard's death in 2000, Rosenblum donated his sculpture Adam to the New Orleans Museum of Art.

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