Andrew March

Andrew March is associate professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of political philosophy, Islamic law and political thought, religion and political theory, and comparative and non-Western political theory more generally. His first book, Islam and Liberal Citizenship (Oxford University Press, 2009), is an exploration of the Islamic juridical discourse on the rights, loyalties, and obligations of Muslim minorities in liberal politics, and won the 2009 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion from the American Academy of Religion. His second book, The Caliphate of Man: The Invention of Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought (Harvard, 2019), examines the problem of divine and popular sovereignty in modern Islamic thought through the Arab Spring.