Participants at past and upcoming Critical Genealogies Workshops
Virgil Brower comes to the CGW from the Centre of Theology, Philosophy & Media Theory at Charles University in Prague.
Natalie Cisneros is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Seattle University. Her recent work appears in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Radical Philosophy Review, Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, The Prison Information Group, and the Future of Abolition (Eds. Perry Zurn and Andrew Dilts), and Philosophy Imprisoned: The Love of Wisdom in the Age of Mass Incarceration (Eds. Sarah Tyson and Joshua M. Hall). Currently, she is completing a book manuscript that draws on the work of Michel Foucault and Gloría Anzaldúa, as well as other feminists and critical race theorists, to suggest a new approach to political and ethical questions surrounding immigration.
Don Deere is Visiting Assistant Professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. His research and teaching areas are in Latin American and Latinx Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, and Ethics. His book project, The Invention of Order: Modernity, Coloniality, and the Spatiality of the Américas, argues that prominent theories of modernity rely on a constitutive forgetting of space that peripheralizes its global-colonial dimensions. He shifts the critique of modernity beyond the shores of Europe, in global terms stretching back to 1492, by bringing twentieth-century Continental critics of modernity into comparative dialogue with Latin American and Caribbean philosophy.
Andrew Dilts is Associate Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at Loyola Marymount University. During the 2016-2017 academic year, Dilts will be in residence as a Member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. He is a political theorist who works in the traditions of critical theory and the history of political thought, focusing primarily on the relationships between race, sexuality, political membership, sovereignty, and punishment in the United States. He is the author of Punishment and Inclusion: Race, Membership, and the Limits of American Liberalism (Fordham University Press, 2014) and co-editor (with Perry Zurn) of Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).
Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis. She is a critical theorist whose work is situated at the intersection of political theory, philosophy, history, and conflict/terrorism studies. Her book, Genealogies of Terrorism: Revolution, State Terror, Empire (Columbia University Press, 2018) offers an empirically grounded and philosophically rigorous examination of what we do when we name something terrorism.
George Fourlas is SHIFT assistant professor of applied ethics and the common good at Hampshire College. He works in the fields of restorative and transitional justice, which he understands as emerging through the intersection of social-political philosophy, critical race theory, ethics, and conflict resolution. He has taught a range of courses related to this work, and his publications have appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as the International Journal of Transitional Justice, Critical Philosophy of Race, and Philosophy and Social Criticism. Along with several forthcoming articles, George is working on a book entitled Justice as Reconciliation: Political Theory in a World of Difference.
Lyat Friedman teaches in the Philosophy Department and the Gender Studies Program at Bar Ilan University. She is the author of In the Footsteps of Psychoanalysis (Bar Ilan University Press, 2013).
Simon Ganahl is post-doctoral researcher in the Department of German Studies at the University of Vienna and lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Zurich. His diploma thesis Ich gegen Babylon: Karl Kraus und die Presse im Fin de Siècle, which received the Bank Austria Research Award, was published by Picus in Vienna in 2006. Simon's PhD thesis in communication Ad oculos et aures: Presse, Radio und Film in der Dritten Walpurgisnacht von Karl Kraus won the Science Award of the Federal State of Vorarlberg in 2010. His second doctoral dissertation, in German Studies, titled Karl Kraus und Peter Altenberg – Eine Typologie moderner Haltungen, was sponsored by an Austrian Academy of Sciences DOC scholarship and will be published by Konstanz University Press. From 2012 to 2013, he was an Erwin Schrödinger Fellow of the Austrian Science Fund in the School of Media Studies at The New School in New York. Simon's papers appeared in peer-reviewed journals and were presented at international conferences. He is also co-editor of the foucaultblog, hosted by the University of Zurich.
James Garrison is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Puget Sound. He has previously served as Consortium for Faculty Diversity Fellow at Scripps College, teaching courses like Ethical Theory, Philosophy of Race, Africana Philosophy, and Black Lives Matter. He recently obtained his doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Vienna, where he taught courses on Classical Chinese Philosophy after having undertaken exchange fellowships the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Peking University. Working under the guidance of Professor Roger Ames at the University of Hawai’i as part of his graduate studies, he developed his forthcoming book The Aesthetic Life of Power (State University of New York Press).
Robert Gehl is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at The University of Utah, as well as an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Writing & Rhetoric Studies at Utah. He teaches critical studies of communication technology, new media theory, software studies, basic Web design, and political economy of communication. His research focuses on network cultures and technologies, alternative social media, and the Dark Web. His book Reverse Engineering Social Media (Temple University Press, 2014), explores the architecture and political economy of social media. It won the 2015 Association of Internet Researchers Nancy Baym Award.
Jessica Houf is Post Doctoral Fellow in Communication at the University of Utah. She is a cultural studies scholar who is fascinated by bacteria. Her research meets at the intersection of feminist science and technology studies, histories of medicine, and critical theory.
Stephanie Jenkins received her BA in Philosophy at Emory University in 2003, her MA in Philosophy from Pennsylvania State University in 2007 and her dual Ph.D. in Philosophy and Women's Studies from Pennsylvania State University in 2012. Her dissertation, Disabling Ethics: A Genealogy of Ability, argues for a genealogy-based ethics that departs from traditional bioethical approaches to disability. Her research and teaching interests include 20th century continental philosophy (especially French), feminist philosophy, disability studies, critical animal studies, and ethics. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time outdoors (hiking, biking, and running), baking, and listening to live music.
Patrick Jones is a doctoral candidate in the Media Studies program at the University of Oregon's School of Journalism and Communications. His research is focused on political communications, specifically electoral voting technologies (in comparative perspective between the major democracies of U.S. and India), and the use of psychometrics in political campaigns. He has been a long-standing member of UO's Critical Genealogies Collaboratory, and participated as a co-author of the group's "Standard Forms of Power" paper, published in Constellations in 2018.
Colin Koopman is Associate Professor in Philosophy and Director of New Media and Culture at the University of Oregon. He works primarily through the critical traditions of Pragmatism and Genealogy, with an eye toward using methods and concepts from these two traditions to engage current issues in politics, ethics, and culture. His latest book is How We Became our Data: A Genealogy of the Informational Person (University of Chicago Press, 2019). His prior publications include Genealogy as Critique: Foucault and the Problems of Modernity (Indiana University Press, 2013), Pragmatism as Transition: Historicity and Hope in James, Dewey, and Rorty (Columbia University Press, 2009), and writings in Critical Inquiry, diacritics, New Media & Society, Constellations, Journal of the History of Philosophy, and The New York Times.
Andreas Kotsakis is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Law at Oxford Brookes University, and the Subject Coordinator for the School's LLM programmes. He researches and teaches in the fields of international law, and environment and development studies.
Jordan Liz is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at San José State University. He works in Philosophy of Race, Philosophy of Medicine, and Bioethics.
Matthew MacLellan researches and publishes in the fields of political philosophy, political theory, cultural theory, and Canadian politics. His current research project draws on the political theory of Michel Foucault (especially the latter’s posthumously published lectures at the Collège de France) in order to examine the paradoxical manner in which the state marginalizes or excludes various populations through an “inclusive” liberal discourse of political and legal equality, and how this counter-intuitive form of exclusion has lead to a mutation of citizenship, characterized by a “biopolitical rationality,” whereby political or social justice shifts away from notions of individual rights and instead targets structural inequalities at the level of population.
Mary Beth Mader is Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of Memphis. Her research and teaching interests include twentieth-century continental philosophy, and feminist theory. She is the author of Sleights of Reason: Norm, Bisexuality, Development (SUNY Press, 2011).
Ladelle McWhorter is Stephanie Bennett-Smith Chair in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Richmond. Her research focuses on 20th Century French & German Philosophy, Queer Theory, and Political Theory. She is the author of Bodies and Pleasures: Foucault and the Politics of Sexual Normalization (Indiana University Press, 1999) and Racism and Sexual Oppression in Anglo-America: A Genealogy (Indiana University Press, 2009) as well as co-editor (with Gail Stenstad) of Heidegger and the Earth: Essays in Environmental Philosophy (University of Toronto Press, 2nd edition 2009).
Torsten Menge is Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Liberal Arts Program at Northwestern University in Qatar. His scholarly work includes his dissertation on the role that the concept of power plays in the telling of genealogies. An article drawn from that work, “The Uncanny Effect of Telling Genealogies” was published in the Southwest Philosophy Review and he has several other works under consideration including, “The Role of Power in Social Explanation,” “Violence and the Materiality of Power,” and “A Fictionalist Account of Power.”
Alex Monea is an Assistant Professor serving jointly in George Mason's English Department and Cultural Studies Department. He researches the history and cultural impacts of computers and digital media. His current book project examines how heteronormative biases get embedded in the machine vision algorithms and content filters that control the flow of content we encounter online. It examines everything from the anti-porn coalition of Christian conservatives and Alt-Right groups to the bias in datasets and algorithms that filter content to instances of sex educational and artistic materials being rendered invisible online.
Thomas Nail is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver. He is currently working on two major research projects. The first is a series of books on the philosophy of movement. So far in the series he has published The Figure of the Migrant with Stanford University Press and Theory of the Border with Oxford University Press. At least three more books are planned for the series and are in various stages of completion. The second project is on the relationship between Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault and includes several sub-projects: a book project co-edited with Nicolae Morar and Daniel W. Smith, titled, "Between Deleuze and Foucault;" a journal issue of Foucault Studies titled, Foucault and Deleuze: Ethics, Politics, Psychoanalysis, co-edited with Nicolae Morar and Daniel W. Smith; a conference/workshop organized with Nicolae Morar and Daniel W. Smith, titled "Between Deleuze and Foucault," held at Purdue University Nov. 30 - Dec. 1, 2012; and a transcription and translation of Gilles Deleuze's audio course lectures on Michel Foucault (1985-1986) as part of a grant from Purdue University, in collaboration with the Université de Paris VIII and published on La Voix de Deleuze.
Amy Nigh is a PhD student in the Philosophy Department at the University of Memphis. Her research interests are in 20th-century French philosophy, especially Foucault and genealogy, and decolonial thought from Latin America.
Kevin Olson is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. He is a political theorist who writes on issues of popular and insurgent politics, postcoloniality, the cultural and material bases of politics, social democracy, poststructuralism, and critical theory. He is the author of Imagined Sovereignties: The Power of the People and Other Myths of the Modern Age (Cambridge, 2016), Reflexive Democracy: Political Equality and the Welfare State (MIT, 2006), and editor of Adding Insult to Injury: Nancy Fraser Debates Her Critics (Verso, 2008). His work has also been published in Political Theory, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Constellations, and other journals and books. He has served as an Albert and Elaine Borchard Foundation Scholar in Residence at the Château de la Bretesche, France, and an Erasmus Mundus Scholar at Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
William Parkhurst is a PhD student in Philosophy at the University of South Florida. His research interests are in metaphysics, epistemology, and 19th- and 20th-century continental philosophy.
Bonnie Sheehey is is an advanced PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Oregon and beginning Fall of 2019 will be Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Montana State University in Bozeman. Bonnie works in Philosophy of Technology, Technology Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy. Her work has appeared in Constellations, Ethics and Information Technology, The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Contemporary Pragmatism, and elsewhere.
Anne Sauka is Lecturer at the University of Latvia. She studies Friedrich Nietzsche, existentialism, and phenomenology of the body.
Rebekah Sinclair is a PhD student in the Philosophy Department at the University of Oregon. Her research interests are in contemporary continental philosophy, critical animal studies, and poststructuralim.
Kevin Thompson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. His areas of specialization are German Idealism, Contemporary French Philosophy, and the history of political theory. He co-edited and contributed to Phenomenology of the Political (Kluwer, 2000) and has published articles on Kant, Hegel, and Foucault.
Perry Zurn is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at American University. He researches in the fields of political philosophy, gender theory, and applied ethics. Dr. Zurn is currently writing a monograph-length study of curiosity as a philosophical method. He is the co-editor of Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition (Palgrave, 2015), Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group, 1970-1980 (University of Minnesota Press, under contract), and a special issue of The Carceral Notebooks (forthcoming). His essays and translations have appeared in venues like the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, philoSOPHIA, Radical Philosophy Review, and Zetesis. He is a co-founder of The Prison and Theory Working Group. Dr. Zurn is also committed to diversity work. He served as the sophomore cohort Program Manager for the McNair Scholars Program at DePaul University from 2011-2015 and now serves on the American Philosophical Association’s Diversity Institute Advisory Panel. During the academic year 2016-2017, Dr. Zurn is on a postdoctoral fellowship with the Center for Curiosity at the University of Pennsylvania.
Natalie Cisneros is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Seattle University. Her recent work appears in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Radical Philosophy Review, Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, The Prison Information Group, and the Future of Abolition (Eds. Perry Zurn and Andrew Dilts), and Philosophy Imprisoned: The Love of Wisdom in the Age of Mass Incarceration (Eds. Sarah Tyson and Joshua M. Hall). Currently, she is completing a book manuscript that draws on the work of Michel Foucault and Gloría Anzaldúa, as well as other feminists and critical race theorists, to suggest a new approach to political and ethical questions surrounding immigration.
Don Deere is Visiting Assistant Professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. His research and teaching areas are in Latin American and Latinx Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, and Ethics. His book project, The Invention of Order: Modernity, Coloniality, and the Spatiality of the Américas, argues that prominent theories of modernity rely on a constitutive forgetting of space that peripheralizes its global-colonial dimensions. He shifts the critique of modernity beyond the shores of Europe, in global terms stretching back to 1492, by bringing twentieth-century Continental critics of modernity into comparative dialogue with Latin American and Caribbean philosophy.
Andrew Dilts is Associate Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at Loyola Marymount University. During the 2016-2017 academic year, Dilts will be in residence as a Member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. He is a political theorist who works in the traditions of critical theory and the history of political thought, focusing primarily on the relationships between race, sexuality, political membership, sovereignty, and punishment in the United States. He is the author of Punishment and Inclusion: Race, Membership, and the Limits of American Liberalism (Fordham University Press, 2014) and co-editor (with Perry Zurn) of Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).
Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis. She is a critical theorist whose work is situated at the intersection of political theory, philosophy, history, and conflict/terrorism studies. Her book, Genealogies of Terrorism: Revolution, State Terror, Empire (Columbia University Press, 2018) offers an empirically grounded and philosophically rigorous examination of what we do when we name something terrorism.
George Fourlas is SHIFT assistant professor of applied ethics and the common good at Hampshire College. He works in the fields of restorative and transitional justice, which he understands as emerging through the intersection of social-political philosophy, critical race theory, ethics, and conflict resolution. He has taught a range of courses related to this work, and his publications have appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as the International Journal of Transitional Justice, Critical Philosophy of Race, and Philosophy and Social Criticism. Along with several forthcoming articles, George is working on a book entitled Justice as Reconciliation: Political Theory in a World of Difference.
Lyat Friedman teaches in the Philosophy Department and the Gender Studies Program at Bar Ilan University. She is the author of In the Footsteps of Psychoanalysis (Bar Ilan University Press, 2013).
Simon Ganahl is post-doctoral researcher in the Department of German Studies at the University of Vienna and lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Zurich. His diploma thesis Ich gegen Babylon: Karl Kraus und die Presse im Fin de Siècle, which received the Bank Austria Research Award, was published by Picus in Vienna in 2006. Simon's PhD thesis in communication Ad oculos et aures: Presse, Radio und Film in der Dritten Walpurgisnacht von Karl Kraus won the Science Award of the Federal State of Vorarlberg in 2010. His second doctoral dissertation, in German Studies, titled Karl Kraus und Peter Altenberg – Eine Typologie moderner Haltungen, was sponsored by an Austrian Academy of Sciences DOC scholarship and will be published by Konstanz University Press. From 2012 to 2013, he was an Erwin Schrödinger Fellow of the Austrian Science Fund in the School of Media Studies at The New School in New York. Simon's papers appeared in peer-reviewed journals and were presented at international conferences. He is also co-editor of the foucaultblog, hosted by the University of Zurich.
James Garrison is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Puget Sound. He has previously served as Consortium for Faculty Diversity Fellow at Scripps College, teaching courses like Ethical Theory, Philosophy of Race, Africana Philosophy, and Black Lives Matter. He recently obtained his doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Vienna, where he taught courses on Classical Chinese Philosophy after having undertaken exchange fellowships the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Peking University. Working under the guidance of Professor Roger Ames at the University of Hawai’i as part of his graduate studies, he developed his forthcoming book The Aesthetic Life of Power (State University of New York Press).
Robert Gehl is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at The University of Utah, as well as an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Writing & Rhetoric Studies at Utah. He teaches critical studies of communication technology, new media theory, software studies, basic Web design, and political economy of communication. His research focuses on network cultures and technologies, alternative social media, and the Dark Web. His book Reverse Engineering Social Media (Temple University Press, 2014), explores the architecture and political economy of social media. It won the 2015 Association of Internet Researchers Nancy Baym Award.
Jessica Houf is Post Doctoral Fellow in Communication at the University of Utah. She is a cultural studies scholar who is fascinated by bacteria. Her research meets at the intersection of feminist science and technology studies, histories of medicine, and critical theory.
Stephanie Jenkins received her BA in Philosophy at Emory University in 2003, her MA in Philosophy from Pennsylvania State University in 2007 and her dual Ph.D. in Philosophy and Women's Studies from Pennsylvania State University in 2012. Her dissertation, Disabling Ethics: A Genealogy of Ability, argues for a genealogy-based ethics that departs from traditional bioethical approaches to disability. Her research and teaching interests include 20th century continental philosophy (especially French), feminist philosophy, disability studies, critical animal studies, and ethics. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time outdoors (hiking, biking, and running), baking, and listening to live music.
Patrick Jones is a doctoral candidate in the Media Studies program at the University of Oregon's School of Journalism and Communications. His research is focused on political communications, specifically electoral voting technologies (in comparative perspective between the major democracies of U.S. and India), and the use of psychometrics in political campaigns. He has been a long-standing member of UO's Critical Genealogies Collaboratory, and participated as a co-author of the group's "Standard Forms of Power" paper, published in Constellations in 2018.
Colin Koopman is Associate Professor in Philosophy and Director of New Media and Culture at the University of Oregon. He works primarily through the critical traditions of Pragmatism and Genealogy, with an eye toward using methods and concepts from these two traditions to engage current issues in politics, ethics, and culture. His latest book is How We Became our Data: A Genealogy of the Informational Person (University of Chicago Press, 2019). His prior publications include Genealogy as Critique: Foucault and the Problems of Modernity (Indiana University Press, 2013), Pragmatism as Transition: Historicity and Hope in James, Dewey, and Rorty (Columbia University Press, 2009), and writings in Critical Inquiry, diacritics, New Media & Society, Constellations, Journal of the History of Philosophy, and The New York Times.
Andreas Kotsakis is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Law at Oxford Brookes University, and the Subject Coordinator for the School's LLM programmes. He researches and teaches in the fields of international law, and environment and development studies.
Jordan Liz is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at San José State University. He works in Philosophy of Race, Philosophy of Medicine, and Bioethics.
Matthew MacLellan researches and publishes in the fields of political philosophy, political theory, cultural theory, and Canadian politics. His current research project draws on the political theory of Michel Foucault (especially the latter’s posthumously published lectures at the Collège de France) in order to examine the paradoxical manner in which the state marginalizes or excludes various populations through an “inclusive” liberal discourse of political and legal equality, and how this counter-intuitive form of exclusion has lead to a mutation of citizenship, characterized by a “biopolitical rationality,” whereby political or social justice shifts away from notions of individual rights and instead targets structural inequalities at the level of population.
Mary Beth Mader is Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of Memphis. Her research and teaching interests include twentieth-century continental philosophy, and feminist theory. She is the author of Sleights of Reason: Norm, Bisexuality, Development (SUNY Press, 2011).
Ladelle McWhorter is Stephanie Bennett-Smith Chair in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Richmond. Her research focuses on 20th Century French & German Philosophy, Queer Theory, and Political Theory. She is the author of Bodies and Pleasures: Foucault and the Politics of Sexual Normalization (Indiana University Press, 1999) and Racism and Sexual Oppression in Anglo-America: A Genealogy (Indiana University Press, 2009) as well as co-editor (with Gail Stenstad) of Heidegger and the Earth: Essays in Environmental Philosophy (University of Toronto Press, 2nd edition 2009).
Torsten Menge is Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Liberal Arts Program at Northwestern University in Qatar. His scholarly work includes his dissertation on the role that the concept of power plays in the telling of genealogies. An article drawn from that work, “The Uncanny Effect of Telling Genealogies” was published in the Southwest Philosophy Review and he has several other works under consideration including, “The Role of Power in Social Explanation,” “Violence and the Materiality of Power,” and “A Fictionalist Account of Power.”
Alex Monea is an Assistant Professor serving jointly in George Mason's English Department and Cultural Studies Department. He researches the history and cultural impacts of computers and digital media. His current book project examines how heteronormative biases get embedded in the machine vision algorithms and content filters that control the flow of content we encounter online. It examines everything from the anti-porn coalition of Christian conservatives and Alt-Right groups to the bias in datasets and algorithms that filter content to instances of sex educational and artistic materials being rendered invisible online.
Thomas Nail is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver. He is currently working on two major research projects. The first is a series of books on the philosophy of movement. So far in the series he has published The Figure of the Migrant with Stanford University Press and Theory of the Border with Oxford University Press. At least three more books are planned for the series and are in various stages of completion. The second project is on the relationship between Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault and includes several sub-projects: a book project co-edited with Nicolae Morar and Daniel W. Smith, titled, "Between Deleuze and Foucault;" a journal issue of Foucault Studies titled, Foucault and Deleuze: Ethics, Politics, Psychoanalysis, co-edited with Nicolae Morar and Daniel W. Smith; a conference/workshop organized with Nicolae Morar and Daniel W. Smith, titled "Between Deleuze and Foucault," held at Purdue University Nov. 30 - Dec. 1, 2012; and a transcription and translation of Gilles Deleuze's audio course lectures on Michel Foucault (1985-1986) as part of a grant from Purdue University, in collaboration with the Université de Paris VIII and published on La Voix de Deleuze.
Amy Nigh is a PhD student in the Philosophy Department at the University of Memphis. Her research interests are in 20th-century French philosophy, especially Foucault and genealogy, and decolonial thought from Latin America.
Kevin Olson is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. He is a political theorist who writes on issues of popular and insurgent politics, postcoloniality, the cultural and material bases of politics, social democracy, poststructuralism, and critical theory. He is the author of Imagined Sovereignties: The Power of the People and Other Myths of the Modern Age (Cambridge, 2016), Reflexive Democracy: Political Equality and the Welfare State (MIT, 2006), and editor of Adding Insult to Injury: Nancy Fraser Debates Her Critics (Verso, 2008). His work has also been published in Political Theory, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Constellations, and other journals and books. He has served as an Albert and Elaine Borchard Foundation Scholar in Residence at the Château de la Bretesche, France, and an Erasmus Mundus Scholar at Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
William Parkhurst is a PhD student in Philosophy at the University of South Florida. His research interests are in metaphysics, epistemology, and 19th- and 20th-century continental philosophy.
Bonnie Sheehey is is an advanced PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Oregon and beginning Fall of 2019 will be Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Montana State University in Bozeman. Bonnie works in Philosophy of Technology, Technology Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy. Her work has appeared in Constellations, Ethics and Information Technology, The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Contemporary Pragmatism, and elsewhere.
Anne Sauka is Lecturer at the University of Latvia. She studies Friedrich Nietzsche, existentialism, and phenomenology of the body.
Rebekah Sinclair is a PhD student in the Philosophy Department at the University of Oregon. Her research interests are in contemporary continental philosophy, critical animal studies, and poststructuralim.
Kevin Thompson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. His areas of specialization are German Idealism, Contemporary French Philosophy, and the history of political theory. He co-edited and contributed to Phenomenology of the Political (Kluwer, 2000) and has published articles on Kant, Hegel, and Foucault.
Perry Zurn is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at American University. He researches in the fields of political philosophy, gender theory, and applied ethics. Dr. Zurn is currently writing a monograph-length study of curiosity as a philosophical method. He is the co-editor of Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition (Palgrave, 2015), Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group, 1970-1980 (University of Minnesota Press, under contract), and a special issue of The Carceral Notebooks (forthcoming). His essays and translations have appeared in venues like the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, philoSOPHIA, Radical Philosophy Review, and Zetesis. He is a co-founder of The Prison and Theory Working Group. Dr. Zurn is also committed to diversity work. He served as the sophomore cohort Program Manager for the McNair Scholars Program at DePaul University from 2011-2015 and now serves on the American Philosophical Association’s Diversity Institute Advisory Panel. During the academic year 2016-2017, Dr. Zurn is on a postdoctoral fellowship with the Center for Curiosity at the University of Pennsylvania.
