Anna Stilz

Anna Stilz is Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. Her research focuses on questions of political membership, authority and political obligation, nationalism and self-determination, rights to land and territory, and collective agency. She also has a strong interest in modern political thought (especially natural law theory, Rousseau, and Kant).

Her first book, Liberal Loyalty: Freedom, Obligation, and the State (PUP 2009), dealt with questions about the moral importance of political citizenship and state authority.

Her second book, Territorial Sovereignty: A Philosophical Exploration, has recently been published by Oxford University Press in 2019. Listen to a podcast and a recent interview about the book.

Stilz is Editor-in-Chief of Philosophy and Public Affairs and a co-editor for Social and Political Philosophy at the Stanford Encyclopedia for Philosophy. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2005, and a B.A. from the University of Virginia in 1999.