Isaac Nakhimovsky
Associate Professor of History and Humanities; Director of the Center for the Study of Representative Institutions; Director of Graduate Studies for E&RS MA Program
Isaac Nakhimovsky is Professor of History and Humanities, with a secondary appointment in Political Science. He is the author of The Holy Alliance: Liberalism and the Politics of Federation (Princeton, 2024) as well as The Closed Commercial State: Perpetual Peace and Commercial Society from Rousseau to Fichte (Princeton, 2011). He has also collaborated on an edition of Fichte’s Addresses to the German Nation (Hackett, 2013) and two volumes of essays on eighteenth-century political thought and its post-revolutionary legacies: Commerce and Peace in the Enlightenment (Cambridge, 2017), and Markets, Morals, Politics: Jealousy of Trade and the History of Political Thought (Harvard, 2018). He serves as Co-Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions and as Co-Editor of the journal Modern Intellectual History.