Michael Illuzzi
Professional Title: Assistant Professor of Political Science
Areas of Academic Focus and Expertise:
American politics and political theory (especially American political thought)
Area of Work and Concentration at Lesley: American institutions, issues of economic and racial inequalities, and civil religion.
Representative List of Recent Courses Taught:
U.S. Politics, Elections and Democracy, U.S. Constitutional Law
Education: BS, Georgetown University; PhD, University of Minnesota
Representative List of Recent Publications / Exhibitions:
- “Equality,” The Encyclopedia of Political Thought, ed., Michael T. Gibbons, Diana Coole, Elisabeth Ellis, and Kennan Ferguson (Oxford: Wiley, forthcoming)
- Lawrence R. Jacobs and Michael Illuzzi. 2004. “In the Shadow of 9/11: Health Care Reform in the 2004 Presidential Election,” The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 32(3)(Fall): 454-460.
I studied for a year at the University of Florence and lived a year in Turin, Italy. I love to go hiking and cycling through the countryside.