Mark Lilla

Mark Lilla is a Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University. French politics, history and culture have been central to his intellectual life since the late 1980s, when he studied at the École des hautes études while completing his doctorate at Harvard. He co-founded the New French Thought series at Princeton University Press and was named to the Ordre des Palmes académiques in 1995. Several of his books have appeared in French, including Le Dieu mort-né and La Gauche identitaire. As an Alliance visiting professor, he taught a graduate course in political theory at Sciences Po.