Political Theory
Gebremichael
Amanuel Tsighe Gebremichael is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia, where his major field is Political Theory and his minor field is American Politics. His doctoral project, “United Nations of Africa: Theories of Liberation in the Horn,” draws on original archival material in Eritrea, the UK, and the US to explore how activist and rebel groups across the Horn of Africa understood their “nationalist” projects as facilitating Pan-African integration and the construction of nonethnic states.
Ying
Dissertation
Self-Governance as Self-Cultivation: Zhu Xi and Confucian Democracy
Committee
Stephen K. White (chair), Lawrie Balfour, Murad Idris, Charles Mathewes (Religious Studies), Anne Kinney (East Asia), and Cong Ellen Zhang (History)
Leach
My areas of interest include identity, subjectivity, democracy, contentious politics, sovereignty, imagination, critical theory, and continental philosophy. I approach the study of identity from an intersectional perspective, but I am most firmly rooted in the tradition of feminist theory and gender scholarship. This connects with my interest in subjectivity, because I am interested in how particular forms of subjectivity are imposed onto or resisted by particular bodies as well as how political subjectivity can be strategically deployed by activists at a macropolitical level.
Lawler
My primary field of interest is political theory with a minor interest in comparative politics. I am particularly focused on ancient political thought, especially the works of Plato and Aristotle. I am also broadly interested in contemporary political thought, including how political freedom works in virtual communities.
Kielty
Henry
Interests: Race, Contemporary Democratic Theory, History of Political Thought, American Politics
Hasper
Interests: Critical Theory, Genealogy, History of Political Thought, Theories of Gender and Sexuality
Gates
Research Interests: democratic theory (deliberative democracy, agonism, Arendtian democratic theory), postcolonial theory, critical legal scholarship, legal anthropology, critical race studies, normative epistemology, social movements, human rights, constitutional law, international law and governance, social movements, culture and ethics under globalization, political culture formation, the interplay between identity, affect, and public recognition, and the relationship between language and law.
Frierdich
My research explores the intersections of affect, crisis, and power. I study how experiences of loss and violence inform subjectivity, and foreclose and/or empower political agency. I am also interested in how conflicts of representation and recognition structure discourses of citizenship and legitimacy.
Research Interests
Theories of affect, intersubjectivity, and embodiment, Continental political thought, democratic deliberation, psychoanalysis, aesthetics, and political theologies.
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