Jack Turner III (he/him/they/them)

Jack Turner is Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington. He specializes in modern political thought, the history of U.S. political thought, democratic theory, and critical race studies. His latest book, Die Your Own Death: Walt Whitman's Existential Democracy, is forthcoming from Princeton University Press. He is also the author of Awakening to Race: Individualism and Social Consciousness in America (University of Chicago Press, 2012). With Melvin L. Rogers, he co-edited African American Political Thought: A Collected History (University of Chicago Press, 2021). His articles have appeared in a wide variety of journals, including Political Theory, American Political Science Review, and Modern Intellectual History.