Jan-Werner Müller studied at the Free University, Berlin, University College, London, St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and Princeton University. From 1996 until 2003 he was a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford; from 2003 until 2005 he was Fellow in Modern European Thought at the European Studies Centre, St. Antony’s College. Since 2005 he has been teaching in the Politics Department, Princeton University.

He has been members and visiting fellows at USA, Finland, Austria, Italy, France and Germany. He is a co-founder of the European College of Liberal Arts (ECLA p today: Bard Berlin), Germany’s first private English-speaking liberal arts college, for which he served as founding research director. He maintains a strong interest in international teaching and research initiatives centred on the liberal arts.

He is the author of Another Country: German Intellectuals, Unification and National Identity (Yale UP, 2000;Chinese translation), A Dangerous Mind: Carl Schmitt in Post-War European Thought (Yale UP, 2003;German, French, Japanese, Greek, and Chinese translations); he is also the editor of Memory and Power in Post-War Europe: Studies in the Presence of the Past, (Cambridge UP 2002) and German Ideologies since 1945: Studies in the Political Thought and Culture of the Bonn Republic (Palgrave 2003). His book Constitutional Patriotism was published by Princeton University Press in 2007.