Sanford Lakoff is Dickeson Professor Emeritus of political science at the University of California, San Diego, where he served as founding chair of his department. He has received accolades for teaching and the Chancellor's Associates Award for promoting discussion of public affairs. He taught previously at Harvard, Stony Brook, and the University of Toronto, and has been a visiting lecturer at the University of Rochester, MIT, and the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.
Lakoff is the author of numerous book and scholarly articles on the history of political thought and relations of science and government including, Equality in Political Philosophy, Democracy, Max Lerner, and A Glossary of Political Ideas.