Lyman Tower Sargent

Lyman Tower Sargent is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Missouri-St. Louis where he taught for forty years. During that time, he held fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Nottingham, and at the London School of Economics and Political Science, the Universities of East Anglia, Exeter, London, and Oxford in England and at the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies at Victoria of Wellington in New Zealand. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award of both the Communal Studies Association and the Society for Utopian Studies, and he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Utopian Studies Society/Europe.

Lyman Tower Sargent is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Exeter and East Anglia and the London School of Economics and Political Science in the UK, and Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand; and a Visiting Fellow, Mansfield College, University of Oxford; an Honorary Research Fellow, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London, a Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Political Ideologies, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford; and a Fellow of the Stout Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand); a Fellow of the Centre for New Zealand Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London; and a Highfield Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Nottingham. He has also been a Visiting Member of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton). He was the founding Editor of Utopian Studies (1990-2004), and is author of Contemporary Political Ideologies: A Comparative Analysis (14th ed. 2009), New Left Thought: An Introduction (1972), British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1975: An Annotated Bibliography (1979), British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985: An Annotated, Chronological Bibliography (1988), New Zealand Intentional Communities: A Research Guide (1997) New Zealand Utopian Literature: An Annotated Bibliography (1997), Utopianism: A Very Short Introduction (2010); Rethinking Utopia and Utopianism: The Three Faces of Utopianism Revisited and Other Essays (2022); Utopian Literature in English: An Annotated Bibliography From 1516 to the Present (2016 and continuing); and Lyman Tower Sargent’s Bibliography [of Secondary Literature] (2017 and continuing); co-author with Thomas A. Zant of Techniques of Political Analysis: An Introduction (1970); and with Lucy Sargisson of Living in Utopia: Intentional Communities in New Zealand (2004); author of over one hundred articles. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award of both the Society for Utopian Studies and the Communal Studies Association. Lifetime Achievement Award by the Utopian Studies Society/Europe. Utopian Studies published a Festschrift in his honor (2020).

co-editor with Gregory Claeys of The Utopia Reader (1999 2nd ed. 2017); with Michael Freeden and Marc Stears of The Oxford Handbook of Political Ideologies (2013); and with Raffaella Baccolini, Transgressive Utopianism: Essays in Honor of Lucy Sargisson (2021); co-associate editor with Michael S. Cummings of Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought. 2 vols. Ed. Gregory Claeys (2013); co-editor of special issues on utopianism of Spaces of Utopia and Utopian Studies. He was founder and co-editor with Gregory Claeys of the Syracuse University Press Series on Utopianism and Communitarianism (1990-2000). From 1997-2000 he advised the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the New York Public Library on their joint exhibit “Utopie: La quête de la société idéale en Occident/Utopia: The Quest for the Ideal Society in the West” which was shown in Paris from April to July 2000 and in New York from October 2000 to January 2001. He was co-editor with Roland Schaer and Gregory Claeys of the catalogs published to accompany the exhibits, Utopie: La quête de la société idéale en Occident (2000) and Utopia: The Quest for the Ideal Society in the Western World (2000).