Robert W. T. Martin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Government

Robert W. T. Martin (Ph.D., Minnesota), Assistant Professor, teaches political theory and his interests include American political thought, democratic theory, early modern political thought, philosophy of social science, and constitutional law. Professor Martin's work has appeared in History of Political Thought and Political Research Quarterly. Book reviews of his have appeared in the American Political Science Review and the Review of Politics. Most recently, he published The Free and Open Press: The Founding of American Democratic Press Liberty, 1640-1805 (New York University Press, 2001). His current book project is titled, Government by Dissent: Democracy, Dissent, and the Early American Public Sphere, and in Spring of 2003 he was a Research Fellow at the New-York Historical Society, researching early American theories of the dissentient public sphere. His C.V. is available by clicking here.

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The Free and Open Press: The Founding of American Democratic Press Liberty, 1640-1805 (2001)