Micah Harris, PhD

@mattleeanderson I just wrote a piece on how Martin Luther King Jr. inhabited stories across time and space. He was Moses leading people out of slavery, Jeremiah preaching justice for the oppressed, Martin Luther reforming a corrupt church. Happy to send it, if you’re interested.

I think I am going to teach a course this fall that is thematically organized around Memory, Reality and Time. What should we read? I'm interested in classic or classic-adjacent texts, poetry, smart fiction, etc. I have a provisional list, but give me your best ideas.

We're holding a Cognitive Liberty conference at Duke, March 5-7. Keynote speeches by Arthur Brooks and Iain McGilchrist. Do you know scholars or graduate students who would be interested? transformativeideas.duke.edu/events/cogniti…

Some of the references for a book chapter I submitted yesterday.

@CUApolitics Thank y'all!

Congratulations to @writermicah (CUA Ph.D.) on his new article, "Emiles and Sophies: How Noah Webster Educated America’s Youth Like Characters from Rousseau," published in the History of Political Thought!

Rousseau had more influence in early America than we thought! See my new HPT article, "Emiles and Sophies: How Noah Webster Educated America’s Youth Like Characters from Rousseau." doi.org/10.53765/20512…

I am now a nuclear expert! Someone said so on TV. (Interview begins at 3:33.) spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/triangle-sa…

On the podcast today, @writermicah reads his short story "The Dead Hand." Listen to the episode: bit.ly/4f41lkw or read in our current issue: bit.ly/3GLfhmT

@SchmittTheory Congrats Sam!

Big News! I have been appointed as Postdoctoral Research Associate at Brown University's Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. 1/

Duke Political Science is accepting submissions for a Frontiers Workshop in Democratic Theory! Please share widely!

An afterword on Dr. King's villains. And a note about what kind of person our society promotes to the top. realclearhistory.com/articles/2025/…

@PhilipDBunn Let me know what you think?

@writermicah I just got my hard copy APT journal yesterday and thought this article looked interesting! Congratulations!

Y'all! It's my first peer-reviewed publication! If you're curious how the American founders read books and used the ideas they found to help shape a new nation, you might find this interesting. journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/IHVJKEB…

It's titled, "Noah Webster and the Influence of Rousseau on Education in America, 1785–1835"

@tmbejan @Politics_Oxford I need to meet him!

Hugely proud of my Oxford student, Connor Grubaugh, who recently passed his DPhil viva without corrections and is heading to UNC next summer (after a postdoc at Duke)! @Politics_Oxford

Just signed the publication contract for my first peer-reviewed journal article! “Noah Webster and the Influence of Rousseau on Education in America, 1785 - 1835” Thank you especially to @AOprea_PPE, @w_merrill, @bkleinerman, and @JustinLitke for coaching me through the process!

It was a long road. Between Nov 1 and late April, I submitted 30+ applications and got nothing but silence and rejections. I had a great outcome. Still, it was exhausting and demoralizing. And, since my new post is temporary, I'll be back at it again, starting in a few weeks.

Y'all! I got a PhD! I will be starting a postdoctoral fellowship at Duke University this fall. And I'm thrilled! polisci.duke.edu

@marksjo1 This looks like a good opportunity. I just applied!

A visiting assistant professor opening in my department (field: American politics). careers.insidehighered.com/job/3108284/vi….

Thesis defended! Y'all, I'm trading my ABD in for a PhD!