Awards

Titled Professor - 2025

Arthur F. Bentley Chair

About Aurelian Craiutu

Aurelian Craiutu is Arthur F. Bentley Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. He has also held visiting professorships in France, Spain, Hungary, and Romania. Professor Craiutu has published and edited several books, including Liberalism under Siege: The Political Thought of the French Doctrinaires (Lexington Books, 2003), A Virtue for Courageous Minds: Moderation in French Political Thought, 1748-1830 (Princeton, 2012), Faces of Moderation: The Art of Balance in an Age of Extremes (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017), and Why Not Moderation? Letters to Young Radicals (Cambridge University Press, 2024). Dr. Craiutu also edited Jacques Necker’s On Executive Power in Great States (Liberty Fund, 2020), Tocqueville on America after 1840 (Cambridge University Press, 2009; with Jeremy Jennings), Madame de Staël’s Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution (Liberty Fund, 2008) and François Guizot’s History of the Origins of Representative Government in Europe (Liberty Fund, 2002). He has received fellowships from several institutions including the National Endowment for Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.