Danielle Allen
Danielle Allen is the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University and author of Justice by Means of Democracy, Cuz, and Our Declaration, winner of the Parkman Prize. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the American Academy of Sciences and Letters, she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Danielle Allen
Danielle Allen is the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University and author of Justice by Means of Democracy, Cuz, and Our Declaration, winner of the Parkman Prize. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the American Academy of Sciences and Letters, she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Books by Danielle Allen

Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality
Danielle Allen
Hardback, 2014
Winner of the Zócalo Book Prize
Shortlisted for the 2015 PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award
Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize, Society of American Historians
“Danielle Allen lays bare the...
Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality
Danielle Allen
E Book, 2014

Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality
Danielle Allen
Paperback, 2026
“A tour de force. . . . No one has ever written a book on the Declaration quite like this one.” —Gordon S. Wood, New York Review of Books
Radical Duke: How One Aristocrat—and the American Revolution—Transformed Britain
Danielle Allen
Hardback, 2026



