Mary G. Dietz

John Evans Professor: Political Theory; Gender and Sexuality Studies
Areas of Research: History of Western Political Thought; Contemporary Political Theory; Democratic Theory; Feminist Theory; Interpretation of Texts.
Recent Publications:

• “Between Polis and Empire: Aristotle’s Politics.” American Political Science Review 106, no. 2 (2012): 275–293.
• “Current Controversies in Feminist Theory.” Annual Review of Political Science 6 (2003): 399–431.
• Turning Operations: Feminism, Arendt, and Politics. New York: Routledge, 2002.

James Farr

Professor: Political Theory
Areas of Research: Early Modern Political Theory; Textual Hermeneutics; Marxism and Critical Theory; History of Political Science; Civic Engagement.
Recent Publications:

• The General Will: The Evolution of a Concept. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. (Co-editor with David Lay Williams)
• The Cambridge Companion to The Communist Manifesto. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. (Co-editor with Terrell Carver)
• “Locke, Natural Law, and New World Slavery.” Political Theory 36, no. 4 (2008): 495–522.

Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

Professor: International Relations, Political Theory; Religious Studies (by courtesy); Crown Chair for Middle East Studies
Areas of Research: International Relations; Religion and Politics; Politics of Secularism; Law and Religion; U.S. Foreign Relations; Politics of the Middle East; Methods in the Study of Religion and Politics; Contemporary Religion.
Recent Publications:

• “Politics of Religious Freedom in the Asia Pacific: An Introduction.” Journal of Religious and Political Practice 4, no. 1 (2018): 9–26.
• “Narratives of De-secularization in International Relations.” Intellectual History Review 27, no. 1 (2017):  97-113.
• Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015.

S. Sara Monoson

Professor: Political Theory; Classics
Areas of Research: History of Political Theory (Ancient); Democratic Theory; Politics in Ancient Greece; Classical Receptions in American Political Discourse; Urban Politics; Modern Greek Politics.
Recent Publications:

• “Aesop Said So: Ancient Wisdom and Radical Politics in 1930s New York.” Classical Receptions Journal 8, no. 1 (2016): 90–113.

• “Socrates in Combat: Trauma and Resilience in Plato’s Political Theory.” In Combat Trauma and the Ancient Greeks, edited by Peter Meineck and David Konstan, 131–162. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

• Plato’s Democratic Entanglements: Athenian Politics and the Practice of Philosophy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. 

Jacqueline Stevens

Professor: Political Theory; Legal Studies
Areas of Research: Political Theories of Membership; Deconstruction; Citizenship; Deportation; Rule of Law; Queer Theory; Forensic Intelligence.
Recent Publications:

• Citizenship in Question: Evidentiary Birthright and Statelessness. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017. (Co-edited with Benjamin N. Lawrence)
• “Don Quixote in America.” Political Theory 44, no. 2 (2016): 196–207.
• “Forensic Intelligence and the Deportation Research Clinic: Toward a New Paradigm.” Perspectives on Politics 13, no. 3 (2015): 722–738.

Alvin B. Tillery, Jr.

Professor: Political Theory, American Politics; African American Studies
Areas of Research: American Political Development; Racial and Ethnic Politics; Media and Politics; History of Western Political Thought; Democratic Theory; Critical Race Theory.
Recent Publications:

• “Which Identity Frames Boost Support for and Mobilization in the #BlackLivesMatter Movement? An Experimental Test.” American Political Science Review 114, no. 4 (2020): 947–962. (Co-authored with Tabitha Bonilla)

• “What Kind of Movement is Black Lives Matter? The View from Twitter.” Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics 4, no. 2 (2019): 297–323.
• “Reading Tocqueville behind the Veil: African American Receptions of Democracy in America, 1835–1900.” American Political Thought 7, no. 1 (2018): 1–25.

Shmulik Nili

Associate Professor: Political Theory
Areas of Research: Global Theory; Analytic Political Philosophy; Global Justice.
Recent Publications:

• Integrity, Personal and Political. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.
• “From Charlottesville to the Nobel: Political Leaders and the Morality of Political Honors.” Ethics 130, no. 3 (2020): 415–445.
• “Global Poverty, Global Sacrifices, and Natural Resource Reforms.” International Theory, 11, no. 1 (2019): 48-80.
• The People’s Duty: Collective Agency and the Morality of Public Policy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Loubna El Amine

Assistant Professor: Political Theory
Areas of Research: Political Theory; Comparative Political Theory; Chinese Political Thought.
Recent Publications:

• “Political Liberalism, Western History, and the Conjectural Non-West.” Political Theory 49, no. 1 (2021): 190–214.
• “On the Liberatory Potential of the Past: The Case of Non-Feudal China.” Journal of World Philosophies, 4, no. 1 (2019): 87–101.
• “Beyond East and West: Reorienting Political Theory through the Prism of Modernity.” Perspectives on Politics 14, no. 1 (2016): 102–120.
• Classical Confucian Political Thought: A New Interpretation. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015.