Joshua Mitchell is a professor of political theory at Georgetown University. Author of four books, most recently, Tocqueville in Arabia, Professor Mitchell has also written extensively on identity politics. In 2005, he was on the start-up team for Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in Doha, Qatar. From 2008-10, he took leave from Georgetown, and was the acting chancellor of the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani. He lives on Maryland's Eastern Shore.
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In American Awakening, Joshua Mitchell compares today’s secular politics of identity—skin tone, gender, and sexuality—to the religious awakenings of America’s past. The book asks where the clerisy of identity politics came from, how identity polit... SEE MORE