Research

Dr. Gutmann is an internationally renowned scholar whose research addresses some of the most important issues in our society today: religious freedom, equal opportunity, race and affirmative action, education, democracy, multiculturalism, and ethics and public affairs.

On the faculty of Princeton for 28 years, Gutmann is an award-winning teacher of political philosophy, democratic theory, practical ethics, and the history of political thought.

Her most recent book, “Identity in Democracy” (2003), analyzes the relationship between our constitutional democracy and those parts of our individual identities that are based on characteristics such as gender, race, religion, sexuality, and social ideology.

Gutmann has also published more than a hundred articles, books, and edited volumes in political theory, practical ethics, and education, which have been translated into many languages. Her essays and reviews have appeared in Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs, Political Theory, Social Philosophy and Policy, Dissent, and The New Republic, among other journals.