Russell Muirhead — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Serves as the Robert Clements Professor of Democracy and Politics and Chair of the Department of Government at Dartmouth College since 2009.
Member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives for the Grafton 12th district since December 2, 2020.
Co-authored "A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy" in 2019.
Co-authored "Ungoverning: The Attack on the Administrative State and the Politics of Chaos" in 2024.
Earned a Bachelor of Arts in government from Harvard College, a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy, politics and economics from Balliol College, Oxford (as a Rhodes Scholar in 1987), and a Doctor of Philosophy in government from Harvard University.

Biography

James Russell Muirhead Jr. is an American academic, politician, and author. He holds the position of Robert Clements Professor of Democracy and Politics and chairs the Department of Government at Dartmouth College, a role he has held since 2009. Concurrently, Muirhead serves as a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives for the Grafton 12th district, having assumed office on December 2, 2020.