Nancy Lipton Rosenblum (born November 10, 1947) is an American political scientist and political philosopher. She is the Senator Joseph S. Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government at Harvard University and co-editor of the Annual Review of Political Science. She studies modern political thought and constitutional law. Rosenblum has been the Chair of both the government department at Harvard and the political science department at Brown University, and a member of the leadership of several professional organizations in political science and political philosophy. Early life and education Rosenblum was born on November 10, 1947. She was the oldest of seven children born to an economist father and social worker mother in Teaneck, New Jersey. Rosenblum earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Radcliffe College and her PhD in Political Science from Harvard University. Career Upon earning her PhD, Rosenblum accepted the Henry LaBarre Jayne Assistant Professor position at her alma mater's Department of Government from 1973 until 1977. She was eventually promoted to Associate professor from 1977 until 1980 when she moved to Brown University. During this time, she published her first book titled Bentham's Theory of the Modern State, in which she synthesizes a variety of arguments by Jeremy Bentham to argue that one of his major accomplishments was an innovative theory of the modern state, together with a theory of how politics should be modernized. Upon joining the political science department at Brown in 1980, Rosenblum became their first female faculty member in history. During her time at Brown, she served as Chairperson of the political science department and their Henry Merritt Wriston Professor. In 1987, she published Another Liberalism: Romanticism and the Reconstruction of Liberal Thought through the Harvard University Press. In the book, Rosenblum describes the dynamic of romanticism and liberalism as one of mutual opposition and reconciliation. In 1993, Rosenblum was given an honorary degree by Kalamazoo College. Following the publication of Another Liberalism, she authored another book in 1998 titled Membership and Morals: The Personal Uses of Pluralism in America, which received the 2002 David Easton Prize by the Foundations of Political Theory. In Membership and Morals, Rosenblum uses historical research and legal analysis to argue that courts have interpreted individuals' belonging to political organizations mainly in terms of how their participation advances the organization's formal political goals, whereas it is necessary to also consider how affiliation with an association can serve