Prof. Elizabeth Markovits, Ph.D.

Elizabeth K. Markovits (Ph.D., UNC at Chapel Hill) is Associate Provost and Associate Dean of Faculty and Professor of Politics on the Ford Foundation at Mount Holyoke College. She is the author of Future Freedoms: Intergenerational Justice, Democratic Theory, and Ancient Greek Tragedy & Comedy (Routledge, 2018) and The Politics of Sincerity: Frank Speech, Plato, and Democratic Judgment (Penn State University Press, 2008). She has also published articles on rhetoric and politics (Journal of Political Philosophy and POROI), as well as on problems of participatory parity for women in the contemporary United States (co-authored with Susan Bickford, Perspectives on Politics). Prof. Markovits was the Executive Co-Director for the interdisciplinary Association for Political Theory (2007-2010) and currently serves on the Editorial Board PS, the American Political Science Review, and Political Research Quarterly. Prior to entering academia, she worked in political campaign research and book publishing.

Additional expertise:

political rhetoric
democratic deliberation
sincerity
intergenerational justice
time
children
Greek tragedy
Greek comedy
realism
parenting and carework