Anne Norton

Anne Norton (born in 1954) is an American professor of political science and comparative literature. She currently holds a chair in political science at the University of Pennsylvania. As a child, Norton lived and traveled throughout the world with her family because her father was an officer in the U.S. Navy. Norton received her B.A. in 1977 and her Ph.D in 1982, both from the University of Chicago. She has held academic positions at Brown University, the University of Notre Dame, Princeton University, and the University of Texas at Austin. Norton's central intellectual interest has been the meaning and consequences of political identity. She has explored this theme in two books on American politics and one on the concept of political...