Anne Norton

Anne Norton (born 1954) is an American professor of political science and comparative literature. She is currently the Stacey and Henry Jackson President’s Distinguished Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Early life As a child, Norton lived and traveled throughout the world with her family because her father was an officer in the U.S. Navy. Academic career Norton received her B.A. in 1977 and her Ph.D in 1982, both from The University of Chicago. She has held academic positions at University of Notre Dame, Princeton University, and The University of Texas at Austin. Writings and views Norton's central intellectual interest has been the meaning and consequences of political identity. She has explored this theme in two books on American politics and one on the concept of political identity itself, drawing on work in the areas of anthropology and semiotics (Norton 1986, 1993, 1988). She has also written a wide-ranging critique of the current practice of the social sciences, particularly political science (Norton, 2004).