Professor
Arlene Warmbrunn Saxonhouse
University of Michigan
Political scientist; Educator
Area
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Specialty
Political Science
Elected
1994
Arlene W. Saxonhouse is the Caroline Robbins Collegiate Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies, Adjunct Professor of Classics, and a former chair of the Department of Political Science. She has published widely in the area of classical and early modern political thought and women in the history of political thought. Professor Saxonhouse has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (1988-89, 2002-03, 2012), was awarded the Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award from the U-M in 1998, and has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford (1995-96,2000, and 2011-12) and at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton (2002-03). She continues to do research on gender in the political thought of Plato, Aristotle and the ancient playwrights, as well on questions of democratic responsibility in Thucydides and in American political thought during the early period of the republic.
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