Ian MacMullen

Ian MacMullen is a political theorist whose primary research and teaching interests lie in the politics of education and of religious and cultural pluralism. His current research focuses on the ways in which civic education in a liberal democracy could and should shape children’s values, beliefs, preferences, identities, and dispositions.  His first book, Faith in Schools? Autonomy, Citizenship, and Religious Education in the Liberal State (Princeton University Press, 2007), articulates a vision of liberal government in a multireligious society through a consideration of the fundamental principles of public education policy.

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MacMullen's teaching interests and experience also include social and distributive justice, history of political thought, political ethics, democratic theory, and rights. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University. He joined the faculty at Washington University in 2007.