0livier Zunz is the James Madison Professor, Emeritus University of Virginia.  Professor Zunz is the author of The Man who Understood Democracy:  The life of Alexis de Tocqueville.  

He has held visiting appointments at the Collège de France and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, among others. He has been the recipient of fellowships and research grants from the Ford Foundation, the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Science Foundation, among others. 

He is other works include The Changing Face of Inequality, Making America Corporate, Why the American Century?, and Philanthropy in America: A History, 

Among other edited volumes, his editions of Alexis de Tocqueville’s works include The Tocqueville Reader: A Life in Letters and Politics, Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont in America: Their Friendship and Their Travels.