Lars Tønder
Assistant Professor
PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Professor Tønder’s research interests include early modern political thought, political theology, phenomenology, and new theories of democracy. Using his expertise in these areas, his research focuses on the concept of tolerance, freedom of expression, and the politics of pluralism. He is the co-editor of Radical democracy: Politics between abundance and lack (Manchester University Press, 2006), and has published single authored articles in Political Theory, Contemporary Political Theory, theory & event, Culture and Politics, and Politologiske Studier.
At Northwestern University, Professor Tønder is affiliated with the Rhetoric and Public Culture program as well as the Critical Theory program. He is the recipient of the 2004 Johns Hopkins University Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award and the 2007 Leo Strauss Award for best dissertation in political philosophy. He was a 2009-2010 Fellow at the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, Northwestern University, and has twice been a Visiting Fellow at Centre d’Études en Rhétorique, Philosophie et Histoire des Idées, École Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Lyon.