Brandon P. Turner
Lyceum Professor, Lyceum Program, Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Office: 230D Brackett Hall, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634
Brandon P. Turner, Ph.D., is a Lyceum Professor for the CISC and Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science. He has been a Visiting Fellow at American University and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Wake Forest University. Turner earned a B.A. in Political Science, Philosophy, and History from Miami University of Ohio (2004) and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2008).
Turner's research interests include the history of modern political thought, particularly British liberal thought, as well as theories of republicanism. He has written on Mandeville, Hobbes, Tocqueville, and Marx, among others. Turner's paper on "La Mandragola and Antagonism in Machiavelli's Political Thought" was awarded the Review of Politics Award for best paper in normative political theory at the 2012 Midwest Political Science Association conference, and his articles and reviews have appeared in Political Theory, Polity, the Review of Politics, and Perspectives on Political Science.