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Rob Goodman

Associate Professor
EducationPhD (Political Science): Columbia University
Phone(416) 979-5000 x 556168

Biography

Rob Goodman is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration and a member of the Yeates School of Graduate Studies at 成人大片. He holds a PhD in Political Science from Columbia University, as well as an MA in Public Policy from George Washington University and a BA in English from Duke University. He was previously a postdoctoral researcher at McGill University and a Core Curriculum instructor at Columbia University. His work has been shortlisted for the CB Macpherson Prize for best political theory book from the Canadian Political Science Association and the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing from the Writers' Trust of Canada. Before beginning his doctoral studies, he worked as speechwriter for US House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and Senator Chris Dodd.

Books

  • Populism, Demagoguery, and Rhetoric in Historical Perspective (edited with Giuseppe Ballacci), Oxford University Press, 2024.
  • Not Here: Why American Democracy is Eroding and How Canada Can Protect Itself, Simon & Schuster, 2023.
  • Words on Fire: Eloquence and its Conditions, Cambridge University Press, 2022.
  • A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age (with Jimmy Soni), Simon & Schuster, 2017.
  • Rome鈥檚 Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar (with Jimmy Soni), Thomas Dunne, 2012.

Peer-reviewed articles

  • 鈥淪lavery and Oratory: Frederick Douglass in the History of Rhetoric,鈥� American Political Science Review 117(4) (2023): 1202-14.
  • 鈥淭he Rhetorical Roots of Du Bois鈥檚 Double Consciousness,鈥� History of Political Thought 44(3) (2023): 577-604.
  • 鈥淧lato the Novelist: The Family Saga in Republic&苍产蝉辫;8-9,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Polity 55(3) (2023): 519-43.
  • 鈥淧opulism as Form and Content: Toward a Holistic Approach鈥� (with Giuseppe Ballacci), Populism 6(1) (2023): 1-27.
  • 鈥淧reaching to the Choir: Rhetoric and Identity in a Polarized Age鈥� (with Samuel Bagg), Journal of Politics 84(1) (2022): 511-24.
  • 鈥溾�業 Tremble with My Whole Heart鈥�: Cicero on the Anxieties of Eloquence,鈥� European Journal of Political Theory 20(4) (2021): 698-718.
  • "'The Low Principles of Jurisprudence': Legal Indeterminacy in Edmund Burke鈥檚 Impeachment of Warren Hastings." The Review of Politics 82:3 (Summer 2020): 1-25.
  • 鈥淭he Deliberative Sublime: Edmund Burke on Disruptive Speech and Imaginative Judgment.鈥� American Political Science Review 112:2 (May 2018): 267-79.
  • 鈥淭he Advisor: Counsel, Concealment, and Machiavelli鈥檚 Voice.鈥� Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory 20:2 (Autumn 2017): 200-23.
  • 鈥淒oux Commerce, Jew Commerce: Intolerance and Tolerance in Voltaire and Montesquieu.鈥� History of Political Thought 37:3 (2016): 530-55.
  • 鈥淗umility Pills: Building an Ethics of Cognitive Enhancement.鈥� The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 39:3 (June 2014): 258-78.
  • 鈥淐ognitive Enhancement, Cheating, and Accomplishment.鈥� Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 20:2 (June 2010): 145-60.

Book Chapters

  • 鈥溾�楴aked鈥� Speech in Late Republican Rome,鈥� in Populism, Demagoguery, and Rhetoric in Historical Perspective, Giuseppe Ballacci and Rob Goodman (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2024.
  • 鈥淚ntroduction鈥� and 鈥淐onclusion鈥� (with Giuseppe Ballacci), in Populism, Demagoguery, and Rhetoric in Historical Perspective, Giuseppe Ballacci and Rob Goodman (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2024.
  • 鈥淎dvising Trump,鈥� in Political Advice: Past, Present and Future, ed. Jacqueline Rose and Colin Kidd, I.B. Tauris, 2021.

Other Selected Articles

  • 鈥淭he Great Canadian Identity Crisis,鈥� The Walrus, 6 November 2023.
  • 鈥淲e Aren鈥檛 as Powerless Over Extremism as We May Think,鈥� The Globe & Mail, 11 August 2023
  • 鈥淲hy the Founders Added 鈥楬igh Crimes and Misdemeanors.鈥�  The Atlantic, 25 September 2019.
  • 鈥淒ecorum Is an Unfashionable Idea, But It Has a Radical Core.鈥� Aeon.  28 September 2018.
  • 鈥淭he Bit Bomb鈥� (with Jimmy Soni). Aeon.  30 August 2017.
  • 鈥淗ow Information Got Re-Invented鈥� (with Jimmy Soni). Nautilus. 10 August 2017.
  • 鈥淭he Appeal of Trump to Traditionalists.鈥� The Atlantic. 12 March 2017.
  • 鈥淲hat Trump Taught Us 成人大片 Democracy. Politico Magazine. 04 January 2017.
  • 鈥淎re China鈥檚 Leaders Better Than Ours?鈥� Politico Magazine. 27 August 2015.
  • 鈥淎merica鈥檚 Hero Problem.鈥� Politico Magazine. 16 January 2015.
  • 鈥淗ow to Be Intoxicated.鈥� Chronicle of Higher Education Review. 05 December 2014.
  • 鈥淭he Case for a College Admissions Lottery.鈥� The Atlantic. 14 May 2014.
  • 鈥淩oman Fever.鈥� Politico Magazine.  03 January 2014.
  • 鈥淔ortune鈥檚 Fools: On Meritocracy.鈥� Brooklyn Quarterly. 07 November 2013.
  • 鈥淭he Comforts of the Apocalypse.鈥� Chronicle of Higher Education Review. 19 August 2013.
  • 鈥淗ow Campaign Spending Brought Down the Roman Republic鈥� (with Jimmy Soni). Slate. 26 November 2012.
  • 鈥淗ow the Filibuster Wrecked the Roman Senate鈥攁nd Could Wreck Ours鈥� (with Jimmy Soni). The Atlantic.  24 March 2011.

Dr. Goodman鈥檚 research interests include rhetoric, classics, and the history of political thought. His recent book, Words on Fire: Eloquence and Its Conditions, investigates the development of models of skilled speech in classical antiquity, as well as their translation into modern institutional settings. His current research project, Black Cicero: Race and American Oratory, is funded by a SSHRC Insight Development Grant.