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Jason Frank
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Frank is the Government Department's Gary S. Davis Assistant Professor
in the History of Political Thought. He received his MA and Ph.D. in political
science from the Johns Hopkins University, and a BA from the University
of California, Santa Cruz. Before coming to Cornell, Frank taught at Johns
Hopkins, Goucher College, University of California, Santa Cruz, Duke and
Northwestern. He has also held research fellowships at UCLA's Center for
17th- and 18th-Century Studies, Duke's Franklin Institute for Interdisciplinary
Research, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His primary field
is political theory and his research and teaching interests include democratic
theory, American political thought, politics and literature, the philosophy
of political inquiry, and historiographical theory.
Frank works on historically
situated approaches to democratic theory, with an emphasis on early American
political thought and culture. Frank's most recent research explores the
legal and political dilemmas engendered by the American Revolution's enthronement
of "the people" as the legitimate ground of public authority.
He is interested in the forms of political contestation that emerge around
competing claims to speak in the people's name, particularly those he
calls "constituent moments." Frank defines these as moments
when claims to speak in the people's name are politically felicitous,
even though they break from established rules and procedures for representing
popular voice. Frank's research explores the dilemmas of authorization
that spring from these moments as they appear in both the formal political
settings of constitutional conventions and political associations, as
well as in the relatively informal political contexts of crowd actions,
political oratory, and literature.
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