Lisa Disch is a professor of political science at the University of Michigan. She teaches courses in the history of political thought, political theories of democracy, and sustainability. Her current research focuses on political representation in Western democracies and on the history and contemporary relevance of political fusion. She is the author, most recently, of Making Constituencies: Representation as Mobilization in Mass Democracy (University of Chicago Press, 2020) and has published articles in the American Political Science Review, Political Theory, the European Journal of Political Theory, and more. She is also serving her first term as a political representative on the City Council in Ann Arbor, MI.