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Théophile Pénigaud

Associate Research Scholar, MacMillan Center
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Théophile Pénigaud is an Associate Research Scholar at the MacMillan Center at Yale. He specializes in political theory and his research interests include the history of political thought, democratic theory, and political epistemology. His book The People's Deliberations: Context and Concepts of Rousseau's Political Philosophy was published in French by Classiques Garnier in 2024. He holds a Ph.D. from the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. Just before coming to Yale, he directed a Junior Laboratory on "Changes and Current Trends in Democracies" at the École Normale Supérieure and was a lecturer at Lyon 3 University.