I am currently teaching in the Power, Identity, and Resistance sequence in the Social Sciences Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago.
Previous Courses
Spring 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 (University of Chicago)
SOSC 11300: Power, Identity, and Resistance III
The third of a three-quarter sequence, this course explores the psychological effects of social inequality, with particular focus on the effects of racism, sexism, and colonialism. We read G.W.F. Hegel, Friedrich Nietzsche, Simone de Beauvoir, Frantz Fanon, Jonathan Lear, and Martin Luther King.
Winter 2016, 2017, 2019 (University of Chicago)
SOSC 11200: Power, Identity, and Resistance II
The second of a three-quarter sequence, this course follows the development of liberal political thought in the early modern era, and engages various critiques and defenses of the liberal conception of individual freedom and equality. We read Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft, David Walker, and Karl Marx.
Fall 2015, 2016, 2018 (University of Chicago)
SOSC 11100: Power, Identity, and Resistance I
The first of a three-quarter sequence, this course examines various theories of political economy, and considers in particular the degree of exploitation within modern economic relationships, and the possibility for resistance against that exploitation. We read Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and Marcel Mauss.
Spring 2015 (UCLA)
PS111c: Late Modern and Contemporary Political Theory
This course traces the trajectory of political theory from the early to the late 20th century. The course examines what is unique to 20th century political theory, and how political theory evolved throughout the 20th century, particularly as a result of World War II. We read John Dewey, Carl Schmitt, Martin Heidegger, Sigmund Freud, Michael Oakeshott, Hannah Arendt, Giorgio Agamben, and Simone de Beauvoir.
Winter 2015 (UCLA)
This course examines the development of modern democratic theory from the 18th century to the present day, and considers how democracy could be genuinely achieved within modern nation-states. The thinkers we read include Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Stuart Mill, John Dewey, Joseph Schumpeter, Carole Pateman, Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson, Chantal Mouffe, and David Held.
Fall 2014 (UCLA)
PS116b: Continental Political Thought
This course focuses on how various Continental political thinkers have identified qualities of alienation within the modern world, and on those thinkers’ views regarding whether the modern world can deliver on its promise of greater individual freedom. We read Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G.W.F. Hegel, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hannah Arendt, and Michel Foucault.
