Faculty

Aurelian Craiutu

Assistant Professor of Political Science and L416 Faculty

Phone: (812) 855-8635
Email: acraiutu@indiana.edu
Office: Woodburn 210
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B.A. with Honors, Economics, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, 1988
M.A. Politics, Princeton University, 1996
Ph.D. Politics, Princeton University, 1999

Aurelian Craiutu is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. He received a Ph.D. in Political Science from Princeton University in 1999 and taught at Duke University and University of Northern Iowa prior to joining Indiana University in 2001 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.  His research interests include French political and social thought, varieties of liberalism and conservatism, democratic theory as well as theories of transition to democracy and democratic consolidation in Eastern Europe.

Craiutu’s The Difficult Apprenticeship of Liberty: Reflections on the Political Thought of the French Doctrinaires won the 2000 American Political Science Association’s Leo Strauss Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of political theory. A revised version of this work, under the title Liberalism under Siege: The Political Thought of the French Doctrinaires, was published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, and subsequently won a 2004 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award. A French revised and enlarged edition of this book has just been published under the title Le centre introuvable: la pensée politique des doctrinaires sous la Restauration at Editions Plon in its collection Commentaire.

Dr. Craiutu also edited Guizot’s History of the Origins of Representative Government in Europe (Liberty Fund, 2002) and published Elogiul libertatii [In Praise of Liberty: Essays in Political Philosophy, 1998, in Romanian). His most recent Romanian book, Elogiul moderatiei [In Praise of Moderation] was published by Polirom in June 2006. His articles and reviews were published in American Political Science Review, The Review of Politics, History of Political Thought, Political Theory, European Journal of Political Theory, Review of Politics, History of European Ideas, Ethics, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Government & Opposition, Critical Review, and East European Constitutional Review.

Dr. Craiutu also serves as Associate Editor of the European Journal of Political Theory published by Sage. He is the recipient of a Student Choice Award (on the basis of “excellent teaching and general rapport with students”) and an Outstanding Junior Faculty Award  that recognizes the achievements of junior faculty who have committed themselves to the teaching and service missions of the University while also developing nationally recognized programs in research and creative activity.

Professor Craiutu is currently working on a book on political moderation entitled Faces of Moderation  and is translating and editing a volume of Tocqueville’s writings (with Jeremy Jennings), Letters and other Writings: Tocqueville after 1840 that will be published by Cambridge University Press.