Society - Meet the Editors

Editor-in-Chief

Daniel Gordon

Daniel Gordon is professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He has been a visiting professor at Stanford University and the Collège de France. He did his doctorate in history at the University of Chicago under Keith Baker, François Furet, and Stephen Holmes. His thesis was published as Citizens Without Sovereignty (Princeton University Press, 1994). He is the translator of Voltaire's Candide (Bedford Saint-Martins, 2001,, 2nd ed. 2017) and editor of The Anthem Companion to Alexis Tocqueville (Anthem Press, 2019).  

Gordon also holds a Master of the Study of Law degree from the Yale Law School. Among his scholarly articles on legal and policy matters are: "From Emergency Law to Legal Process" (2007 with Malick Ghachem); "Why There Is No Headscarf Ban in the United States" (2008); "Paradoxes of Diversity" (2017, with Peter Baehr); and "The Firing of Angela Davis at UCLA, 1969-1970." The last of these articles appeared in Society in December, 2020.  Most of his publications are available on ResearchGate.

Daniel served as the Co-Editor of the journal Historical Reflections from 2002-2013. He played a lead role in moving the journal from desktop publishing to Berghahn Books. His regular duties included first-round copy editing and the organization of thematic volumes.   

Managing Editor and Book Review Editor

Johnny Lyons

Johnny Lyons is a graduate of Christian Brothers College, Monkstown, Trinity College Dublin and the University of Cambridge. After a six-year spell teaching political theory at Trinity College Dublin, he joined the commercial world in 1999, where he works in corporate communications and change management. Lyons is the author of the critically acclaimed The Philosophy of Isaiah Berlin (2020) as well as a contributor to the Dublin Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement and Aeon. His book, Isaiah Berlin and His Philosophical Contemporaries, is due to be published by Palgrave Macmillan in October 2021. Further information about Johnny is available on his website at https://johnnylyons.org/ (this opens in a new tab)