Alin Fumurescu, Ph.D.

Dr. Alin Fumurescu was Associate Professor of Political Science and the Founding Director of the Tocqueville Forum, from 2014 until his passing in 2025. His many research interests included the history of ideas, early modernity, and political and self-representation, and his major publications reflected his abiding concern with the concept of Compromise in political history. His book Compromise: A Political and Philosophical History was published by Cambridge University Press in 2013, and its sequel, in 2019, Compromise and the American Founding: The Quest for the People's Two Bodies. Together with a former UH graduate student, he co-edited Foundations of American Political Thought: Readings and Commentary (Cambridge University Press, 2021).