William Klein

Senior Lecturer in History & Humanities

William Klein completed his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins in 1987. He comes to Yale from New York University, where he taught in the honors program and was chair of Law, Ethics, and Religion in Global Liberal Studies. He has published studies on the history of constitutional and political thought from Thucydides to Hobbes, and he recently edited a collection of dialogues held at NYU’s Villa La Pietra, titled Democracy and Dissent. He is currently completing a study on the history of ideas and imaginings surrounding civil strife. In the fall, he is teaching Directed Studies and the seminar HUMS 264/HIST 256: “Imagining the Body Politic”. In the spring, in addition to Directed Studies, he will supervise theses in History.