Timothy T. Tennyson

Welcome to my website! I am a postdoctoral research associate at the Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Brown University. My research centers on conceptions of civic education and citizenship in the history of political thought and contemporary political theory. In particular, I am interested in the pedagogical, moral, and political assumptions that inform past and present conceptions of citizenship education in liberal and democratic theory. While I am trained in political theory, my research is interdisciplinary and engages with questions relevant to a broad audience interested in the educational foundations of citizenship in liberal democracies. My work has been published in The European Journal of Political Theory, History of Political Thought, and Polity.

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I received my Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin Madison in 2025 and my B.A. from Carthage College in 2017. I also spent a year (2017-2018) teaching English and Western Culture at the Foreign Business and Trade College of Chongqing Normal University. 

 

You can contact me at timothy_tennyson@brown.edu.