Berkley Center

Stephen Macedo is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics at Princeton University and a former Director of the University Center for Human Values (2001-2009). He is the founding director of Princeton’s Program in Law and Public Affairs (1999-2001) and chaired the Princeton Project on Universal Jurisdiction. He was the Vice President of the American Political Science Association and the first chair of its standing committee on Civic Education and Engagement. He is the author of numerous works including Democracy at Risk: How Political Choices Undermine Citizen Participation, and What We Can Do About It (2005), Diversity and Distrust: Civic Education in a Multicultural Democracy (2000); and Liberal Virtues: Citizenship, Virtue, and Community in Liberal Constitutionalism (1990). His current scholarship focuses on social justice and immigration, democracy and international institutions, and constitutional democracy in the US. He received a Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton, an M.Litt. in Politics from Oxford University, an M.A. in Politics from Princeton, and an M.Sc. in the History of Political Thought from the London School of Economics.