Russell Muirhead is the Robert Clements Professor of Democracy at Dartmouth College, where he teaches courses on constitutional government in America, American political thought, contemporary political and legal theory, and political economy.
He is the co-director of the Political Economy Project at Dartmouth. With Nancy Rosenblum, Muirhead has published two recent books on American politics: Ungoverning, about the dismantling of administrative capacity in American national government, and A Lot of People Are Saying, about the way conspiracy theories have enveloped American politics since the rise of social media. He has also written books on parties and polarization in American politics (The Promise of Party in a Polarized Age) and the moral meaning of work (Just Work).
Muirhead serves in the New Hampshire House of Representatives, where he focuses on election law. There, he has sponsored a raft of reform bills that address campaign finance, ballot accessibility, and partisan primaries. A devoted skier, mountain biker, and outdoorsman, Muirhead lives in Hanover, New Hampshire with his wife and two children. He graduated from Central High School in Manchester, New Hampshire. Muirhead also has degrees from Harvard University and Balliol College, Oxford. Prior to Dartmouth, Muirhead taught at UT Austin, Harvard, and Williams.
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