Monday, October 24, 2022 

5:30PM -  7:00PM 

A live streamed event. Advanced registration required. 

Robert Pepperman Taylor is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Vermont, where he has taught since 1986. He has also served as the founding Dean of UVM’s Honors College, as the Director of its John Dewey Honors Program, and as Honors Coordinator for UVM’s College of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of three books on Thoreau: America’s Bachelor Uncle: Henry Thoreau and the American Polity (1996); The Routledge Guidebook to Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience” (2015); and Lessons from “Walden”: Thoreau and the Crisis of American Democracy (2020, which won the American Political Science Association section award for best book of 2020 in American political thought). He is also the author of three other books: Our Limits Transgressed: Environmental Political Thought in America (1992); Citizenship and Democratic Doubt: The Legacy of Progressive Thought (2004); and Horace Mann’s Troubling Legacy: The Education of Democratic Citizens (2010), as well as having edited two books and published several articles and book chapters. His awards include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities and for excellence in teaching. He earned his B.A. at Wesleyan University and his M.A. and Ph.D. at Rutgers University.