Professor James Freeman has a PhD in political theory from SUNY Albany. He has been teaching college level courses (American Government, Sociology, Urban Politics, Political Philosophy) for just under thirty years, the last six at NYU. His research areas vary, from staid academic articles to accessible, topical contemporary issues essays. Along with a coauthor, he recently completed an American Government textbook, The Political Imagination. Dr. Freeman has also co-authored articles about the American Civil Rights movement, including "Remembering MLK's Last, Most Radical Book" and "Martin Luther King Jr. And America's Fourth Revolution", as well as more contemporary issues including "Trumpism and Demagoguery in America", "Bernie Sanders Political Revolution", "Public Sector Unions and New York's Triborough Amendment". Freeman's other academic scholarship in the political theory field includes "Another Side of C. Wright Mills: The Theory of Mass Society" and “Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory”.
He currently teaches Political Theory, Comparative Politics, Urban Politics and Policy, People Power and Politics: Core Themes In Social and Political Thought, Political Thought and Life: From Plato to Climate Change at NYU on a part time basis, along with two other area colleges. He tries, very hard, to make classes accessible, conversational and fun.
