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.

Gutmann has authored and edited fifteen books and has published more than 100 articles, essays, and book chapters. Her essays and reviews have appeared in numerous national and international publications, including The New York Times, The Times Literary Supplement, The New Republic, The Washington Post, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Daedalus.

Gutmann's most recent books include Why Deliberative Democracy? (2004, with Dennis Thompson), Identity in Democracy (2003), Democratic Education (revised edition, 1999), Democracy and Disagreement (1996, with Dennis Thompson and selected by Choice as one of “the outstanding political science books for 1997”), and Color Conscious (1996, with K. Anthony Appiah).  Color Conscious won the Ralph J. Bunche Award "for the best scholarly work in political science that explores the phenomenon of ethnic and cultural pluralism"; the North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award; and the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights Award for the "outstanding book on the subject of human rights in North America."