Jan-Werner Müller studied at the Free University, Berlin, University College, London, St.
Antony’s College, Oxford, and Princeton University. From 1996 until 2003 he was a
Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford; from 2003 until 2005 he was a Fellow at the
European Studies Centre, St. Antony’s College. Since 2005 he has been teaching in the Politics Department, Princeton University.

He has been a visiting fellow at the Collegium Budapest Institute of Advanced Study, the
Remarque Institute, NYU, the Center for European Studies, Harvard, as well as the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence. He has also taught as a visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris.

Professor Müller is a co-founder of the European College of Liberal Arts (ECLA), Berlin,
Germany’s first private, English-speaking liberal arts college, for which he served as
founding research director. He maintains a strong interest in international teaching and research initiatives centered on the liberal arts.

He is the author of Another Country: German Intellectuals, Unification and National
Identity (Yale UP, 2000;Chinese translation), A Dangerous Mind: Carl Schmitt in Post-War European Thought (Yale UP, 2003;German, French, Japanese, and Chinese translations); he is also the editor of Memory and Power in Post-War Europe: Studies in the Presence of the Past, (Cambridge UP 2002) and German Ideologies since 1945: Studies in the Political Thought and Culture of the Bonn Republic (Palgrave 2003). His book Constitutional Patriotism was published by Princeton University Press in 2007.

Professor Müller’s public affairs commentary has appeared in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung,
the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and Merkur: Deutsche Zeitschrift für europäisches
Denken; he has also contributed to Project Syndicate, Dissent, the Boston Review, and Prospect (London), as well as Esprit and Commentaire (Paris). He serves on the editorial boards of the European Journal of Political Theory, the Journal of Contemporary History, and Raison Publique: Revue International de Philosophie Pratique et Appliquée.

He is currently writing a new history of political thought in twentieth-century Europe.