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Lindsay Mahon Rathnam

Assistant Professor of Political Theory at Duke Kunshan University
DKU Faculty

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Assistant Professor of Political Theory at Duke Kunshan University · 2020 - Present DKU Faculty
Assistant Professor of the Practice of DKU Studies at Duke University · 2023 - Present DKU Studies

Recent Publications


Herodotus and the Presocratics: Inquiry and Intellectual Culture in the Fifth Century BCE, written by K. Scarlett Kingsley

Journal Article Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought · January 21, 2025 Full text Cite

The Marketplace of Ideas and the Agora: Herodotus on the Power of Isegoria

Journal Article American Political Science Review · February 20, 2023 Popular discourse about freedom of speech tends to default to the metaphor of the marketplace of ideas, notwithstanding empirical evidence undermining this concept. Its persistence illustrates the profound attachment freedom of speech inspires, despite the ... Full text Cite
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Education, Training & Certifications


University of Toronto (Canada) · 2018 Ph.D.