Jan-Werner Müller teaches political theory and the history of ideas at Princeton University (USA). He has been a visiting scholar at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, the Collegium in Helsinki, the Institute for the Humanities in Vienna and a number of other institutes ; he has also been a member of the School of Historical Studies at Princeton's Institute of Advanced Study. He has held visiting professorships at EHESS, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, American University Beirut, Haifa University Law School, Humboldt-Universität Berlin and Institut d'études politiques de Paris. He has given the Carlyle Lectures at Oxford and the Tanner Lectures at Cambridge.
He is co-founder of the European College of Liberal Arts Berlin (ECLA; now : Bard Berlin) and continues to be involved in international liberal arts teaching and research initiatives.
Jan-Werner Müller is the author of numerous books, including Carl Schmitt. Un esprit dangereux (Alma, 2007), Difficile démocratie, les idées politiques en Europe au XXe siècle 1918-1989 (Alma, 2013), Qu'est-ce que le populisme ? Defining the threat at last (Premier Parallèle, 2016) and more recently Liberté, égalité, incertitude. Power of democracy (2022, Premier Parallèle). His commentaries and essays on public affairs have appeared in the London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books, Foreign Affairs, The Guardian, the New York Times and Project Syndicate.
