Aurelian Craiutu (Ph.D. Princeton, 1999) is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, where is also affiliated with the Russian and East European Institute, The WEST European Studies Institute, and the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis.
PProfessor Craiutu's research interests include French political and social thought (Montesquieu, Tocqueville, Constant, Madame de Staël, Guizot, Raymond Aron), varieties of liberalism and conservatism, democratic theory as well as theories of transition to democracy and democratic consolidation in Eastern Europe.
Aurelian Craiutu is the author of Liberalism under Siege: The Political Thought of the French Doctrinaires The Political Thought of the French Doctrinaires, published by Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield, which won a 2004 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award. A French revised and enlarged edition of this book was published in April 2006 under the title Le centre introuvable: la pensée politique des doctrinaires sous la Restauration at Editions Plon (Commentaire series). Dr. Craiutu also published two books in Romanian, In Praise of Liberty: Essays in Political Philosophy, (1998), and In Praise of Moderation, (2006), both with Polirom Publishing House.
Professor Craiutu has also edited Guizot's History of the Origins of Representative Government in Europe (Liberty Fund, 2002), Madame de Staël's Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution (Liberty Fund, 2008), Tocqueville's Views on America after 1840: Letters and Other Writings (with Jeremy Jennings, Cambridge University Press, 2009), America through European Eyes (co-edited with Jeffrey C. Isaac, Penn State University Press, 2009), and Conversations with Tocqueville (co-edited with Sheldon Gellar, Lexington Books, 2009). Craiutu's articles and reviews were published in many academic journals including American Political Science Review, The Review of Politics, History of Political Thought, Political Theory, European Journal of Political Theory, and History of European Ideas. He serves as Associate Editor of the European Journal of Political Theory.
Professor Craiutu has received awards, fellowships and grants from many institutions including the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Earhart Foundation. In 2000, he won the American Political Science Association's Leo Strauss Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of political theory. In 2004, he received a Student Choice Award and an Outstanding Junior Faculty Award at Indiana University.
During the AY 2008-09, Professor Craiutu is a Member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton where he is working on an intellectual history of the idea of political moderation.
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