Ph.D. Candidates
Tim Charlebois
Dissertation: “Attention Between Ethics and Politics: Weil, Arendt and the Ethics of Care after the Ethical Turn”
Committee: Mary G. Dietz (Chair); Alvin B. Tillery, Jr., Loubna El Amine
Areas of Research: Contemporary Political Theory; Ethics of Care; Epistemic Injustice; Critical Phenomenology; Democratic Theory; Feminist Theory; Disability Studies; Trauma Studies; Politics & Literature; Interpretation of Texts
Shawn Dean
Dissertation: “Florence in Crisis: Dictatorship and Democracy in Machiavelli’s Political Thought ”
Committee: Mary G. Dietz (Chair); James Farr, Loubna El Amine
Areas of Research: Democratic Theory; Republicanism; Florentine Political Thought; Emergency Government; History of Political Thought
Kyle Jones
Committee: James Farr (Chair); Mary G. Dietz, Loubna El Amine, Loren Goldman (UPenn)
Areas of Research: American Pragmatism; John Dewey; History of Political Thought; Critical Theory; Interpretive Methods in Archival Research and Translation
Sam McChesney
Dissertation: “Political Courage”
Committee: Sara Monoson (Chair), Mary G. Dietz, James Farr
Areas of Research: Ancient Greek Political Thought; Hermeneutics; History of Ideas; Hannah Arendt
Bill French
Dissertation: “Inauthentic Deliberation in Democratic Theory: Reflective Manipulation and Social Identity”
Committee: Shmulik Nili (Chair); Jim Farr, Jose Medina (Philosophy)
Areas of Research: Analytic Political Philosophy; Epistemic Injustice
Ph.D. Students
Soho Char
Areas of Research: Democratic Theory; Analytic Political Philosophy; Deliberative Democracy
Advisor: Shmulik Nili
Shah Zeb Chaudhary
Areas of Research: Critical Theory; Religion; Law; Culture
Advisor: Ian Hurd
Jinxue Chen
Areas of Research: History of Political Thought; Global and Comparative Political Theory; Contemporary Political Theory
Advisor: Loubna El Amine
Emma Davis
Areas of Research: Critical Theory; Post- and Decolonial Political Thought; Feminist Theory
Advisor: Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
Jeremi Dolecki
Areas of Research: Critical Theory; Marxism; Far-Left Political Theory
Advisor: James Farr
Amanda Fu
Areas of Research: German Critical Theory; Radical Democratic Theory; Feminist Theory
Advisor: James Farr
Usdin Martínez
Areas of Research: Radical Democracy; Critical Theory; Comparative Political Theory; Interpretive Methods; Civil War and Contentious Politics
Advisor: Loubna El Amine
Charlotte Mencke
Areas of Research: Classical Political Thought; Receptions of Classical Political Thought; Democratic Theory; Hannah Arendt
Advisor: Mary G. Dietz
Megha Summer Pappachen
Areas of Research: Marxism; Feminist Theory; Queer Theory; Internationalism; Anti-Imperialism; Socialist Feminism
Advisor: Loubna El Amine