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, and democratic theory. He is the author of Die Your Own Death: Walt Whitman's Existential Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2026) and 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.