Brian R. Duff, Ph.D

Current research

My most recent book offers a political theory of the restaurant. It explores the particular sort of conversations that restaurants make possible — conversations that we often avoid in other spaces.

My next project delves deeper into these questions with a focus on gender.

My first book explores the way ideas about parenthood have influenced the development of the concept of citizenship in modern democracies. 

I continue to do research regarding ideas about family and parenthood in American politics. I do this through the critical examination of public policy, engagements with political theory, and the examination of public opinion data about ideas about parenthood and children affect political attitudes and behavior. 

I also have an ongoing project, begun with a student at UNE, examining new ways to understand who votes and who does not in America, which you can read about in Time Magazine.