Stephen Macedo

Stephen Macedo is Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics at Princeton University. He writes and teaches on political theory, ethics, public policy, and law, especially on topics related to liberalism, democracy and citizenship, diversity and civic education, religion and politics, and the family and sexuality. From 2001-2009, he was Director of the University Center for Human Values. As founding director of Princeton’s Program in Law and Public Affairs (1999-2001), he chaired the Princeton Project on Universal Jurisdiction and helped formulate the Princeton Principles on Universal Jurisdiction. As vice president of the American Political Science Association he was first chair of its standing committee on Civic Education and Engagement. He was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014.

October 2024