Bleiberg
My research focuses on disingenuous claim-making in contemporary politics. I’m interested in examining the function this type of claim-making serves for both speaker and audience
Political Theory
Bibeau-Gagnon
Research interests: Nonideal and realist political theory. Critical theory. Public opinion.
I am mainly interested in political theory and the way in which it is related to the practice of politics. More precisely, I pursue research about how public opinion, democratic decision-making, and deliberation inform normative thinking about salient political issues. In parallel, I am also working on quantitative public opinion projects about religiosity, racism, and the legalization of marijuana in Canada.
Cope
Kevin Cope is an associate professor of law at the Law School and faculty affiliate at the Department of Politics.
Cope’s research focuses on the measurement of legal and political phenomena. Substantively, he is most interested in the law and politics of international institutions, migration, and relationships between domestic institutional structure and international behavior.
Cash
Jordan Cash is the 2018-2019 Pre-Doctoral Research Specialist in the Program on Constitutionalism and Democracy. His research focuses on American politics, constitutional law, American political thought, and early modern political theory. His doctoral research examines how presidents who were isolated from other institutions used their constitutional authority to achieve their policy goals, providing a clearer view of the institutional logic of the constitutional presidency.
Savage
James D.
Rubenstein
Jennifer Rubenstein is an associate professor of politics at the University of Virginia specializing in political theory. Her interests include the political role and ethical responsibilities of non-governmental organizations; global justice; non-ideal theory; democratic theory (especially theories of non-electoral representation and advocacy that attend to global inequalities); theories of office, and the role of imagination and experience in politics.
Klosko
George Klosko’s research interests include contemporary political theory, especially issues in analytical and normative theory, and the history of political thought. He teaches courses in both areas: in the history of political thought, focusing on the liberal tradition and Greek political theory, especially Plato; in contemporary, in specific aspects of liberal theory, including problems of political obligation and the theory of John Rawls and Rawls’s critics.
Duong
Kevin Duong teaches modern political thought and intellectual history in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia. During AY 2023-25, he will also teach aesthetics and visual culture as a College Fellow in the undergraduate core, the Engagements. Much of his research focuses on expressions of revolutionary agency by “the people” in European thought and culture, but his interests extend beyond democratic theory to fields such as queer theory, political violence, the history of the human sciences, colonialism and empire, and the history of the left.
Brennan
Timothy Brennan received his doctorate in political science from Boston College. He is originally from Sydney, Australia, and did his undergraduate work at the University of Melbourne. His research interests include democratic theory, the foundations of modern liberalism, American political thought, comparative constitutionalism, and the relation between religion and politics. His work has appeared in the Journal of Politics.
Bird
Colin Bird is Associate Professor of Politics and Director of the Program in Political Philosophy, Policy and Law at the University of Virginia.
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