Norma Thompson

Norma Thompson is Associate Director of the Whitney Humanities Center,

Senior Lecturer in the Humanities, and Director of Undergraduate Studies

for the Humanities major at Yale College. Her scholarly and teaching

interests are in political philosophy and politics and literature. Thompson’s latest book is Unreasonable Doubt: Circumstantial Evidence and the Art of Judgment (Paul Dry Books, 2011), first published by the University of Missouri Press in 2006. She has published two books with Yale University Press: Herodotus and the Origins of the Political Community: Arion’s

Leap (1996) and The Ship of State: Politics and Statecraft from Ancient

Greece to Democratic America (2001). She edited the volume Instilling Ethics

(Rowman and Littlefield, 2000) and has also published in Arion, Nomos,

the International Journal of the Classical Tradition, The Cambridge Companion to

Ancient Greek Political Theory (2009), and in the festschrift for

David Grene, Literary Imagination, Ancient and Modern. She has an online entry on Herodotus in The Encyclopedia of Political Thought (Wiley Online Library), 2014, and recent articles in Western Civilization and the Academy, ed. Bradley C.S. Watson (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015) and Perspectives on Political Science, ed. Peter Lawler, Summer 2015. Thompson received her A.B. from Bowdoin College and her Ph.D. from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.