Arlene Saxonhouse

Arlene W. Saxonhouse is the Caroline Robbins Collegiate Professor of Political Science, Emerita, and a former chair of the Department of Political Science. She has published widely in the area of classical and early modern political thought, ancient democracy, and women in the history of political thought. Professor Saxonhouse has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (1988-89 and 2002-03), was awarded the Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award from the U-M in 1998, is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford (1995-96, 2000, 2011-12) and at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton (2002-03). She continues to do research on gender in the political thought of Plato, Aristotle and the ancient playwrights and is currently engaged in a project on that looks at the question of who is responsible when regimes change form.

Affiliation(s)

• Department of Women's Studies
• Department of Classical Studies

Field(s) of Study

• Political Theory
• Gender and Politics