Faculty

Gregg, Benjamin
Associate Professor

Office: MEZ 3.138
Phone: 512-232-7274
bgregg@austin.utexas.edu
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Education: Professor Gregg earned a B.A. from Yale, a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Free University of Berlin, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Princeton.

Research interests:
Professor Gregg writes and teaches about modern European and American social and political theory. He is currently writing two books: a critical social theory of nationalism and communal identity in the twenty-first century titled Political Solidarity Without Nationalism, and a proposal for a new form of state sovereignty titled State-Based Human Rights for a State-Centric World. He regularly teaches in the Departments of Sociology and Philosophy.

Field(s) of Study: Political Theory; Public Law

Awards/Honors:
The College of Liberal Arts awarded him the 1999 Silver Spurs Fellowship for outstanding scholarship and teaching.

Recent Publications:
Recent publications include: Thick Moralities, Thin Politics: Social Integration Across Communities of Belief (Duke University Press, 2003); Coping In Politics With Indeterminate Norms:A Theory of Enlightened Localism (SUNY Press, 2003); "Proceduralism Reconceived: Political Conflict Resolution under Conditions of Moral Pluralism," in Theory and Society (2002); "The Law and Courts of Enlightened Localism," in Polity (2002); "Using Legal Rules in an Indeterminate World: Overcoming the Limitations of Jurisprudence," in Political Theory (1999); and "Adjudicating Among Competing Systems of Belief," in International Review of Sociology (1999).