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Keegan Callanan is an Associate Professor of Political Science (Christian A. Johnson Chair in Political Philosophy) at Middlebury College, where he also serves as Director of the Alexander Hamilton Forum on the American Political Tradition. He earned an A.B. from Bowdoin College in 2003 and M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from Duke University. His academic career includes a fellowship in the Program on Constitutionalism and Democracy at the University of Virginia prior to joining Middlebury, and visiting fellowships at the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University (2017-2018, 2018-2019, 2020-2021). He is a member of the Executive Council of the New England Political Science Association and remains a member of the National Council on the Humanities, to which he was appointed by President Trump. His publications include Montesquieu’s Liberalism and the Problem of Universal Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and co-editor of Cambridge Companion to Montesquieu (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Contact: kcallanan@middlebury.edu, (802) 443-5374, LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keegan-callanan-50674830.