Department of Politics at Princeton University

Jan-Werner Mueller's research interests include the history of modern political thought, democratic theory, constitutionalism, religion and politics, and the normative dimensions of European integration.

He is the author of Contesting Democracy: Political Ideas in Twentieth Century Europe. (Yale UP, 2011; (German, French, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Polish, Danish, and Serbian translations) Constitutional Patriotism (Princeton UP, 2007; German, Chinese, Turkish, Korean, Japanese, and Serbian translations), A Dangerous Mind: Carl Schmitt in Post-War European Thought (Yale University Press, 2003; German, French, Japanese, Greek, Serbian, and Chinese translations) and Another Country: German Intellectuals, Unification and National Identity (Yale University Press, 2000; Chinese translation). In addition, he has edited German Ideologies since 1945: Studies in the Political Thought and Culture of the Bonn Republic (Palgrave, 2003) and Memory and Power in Post-War Europe: Studies in the Presence of the Past (Cambridge UP, 2002).

2016 saw the publication of What is Populism? which has been translated into more than 20 languages.

Professor Mueller has been a fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, the Collegium Budapest Institute for Advanced Study, the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, the Center for European Studies, Harvard University, the Remarque Institute, NYU, and the European University Institute, Florence; he has also been a Member of the Institute of Advanced Study Princeton.  He has taught as a visiting professor at the EHESS, Paris, Sciences Po, Paris, as well as Humboldt University, Berlin, and LMU, Munich. In 2011 he delivered the Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought at Oxford University and in 2017 the Tanner Lectures at Cambridge University.

At Princeton Jan-Werner Mueller directs the Project in the History of Political Thought at the University Center for Human Values.

D.Phil., Oxford University