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Specialization:
Political Theory
Comparative Politics
Education:
Ph.D., The University of California Santa Barbara, 2013
M.A., The New School of Social Research, 2006
B.A., California Baptist University, 2004
Research:
My current research focuses on the work of Marxist activist and intellectual Raya Dunayevksaya. Her writings on democracy, race, gender, and Hegelian dialectics are used in order to respond to some of the critiques of the Marxist tradition leveled by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. All of this is done to highlight a libertarian, democratic strand of Marxism with a basis in Hegelian philosophy that is rarely discussed within the academy. It is hoped that this particular strand of the Marxist tradition will be of interest to Marxist, post-structuralist, and anarchist intellectuals and activists (both inside and outside the academy).
Publications:
"The Post-Marxist Tradition and Its Unclaimed Treasure" The Review Journal of Political Philosophy, 6 (2008): 5-26
Courses:
POLS1 – Political Ideas in the Modern World
With Professor P. Digeser 2007, 2011
With Professor N. Dungey 2007, 2008
With Professor A. Norris 2009,2010
With Professor T. Hughes
With Professor L. Moosbrugger 2010
POLS12 – American Government and Politics
With Professor S. Wiener 2007
With Professor J. Feezell 2009, 2010
POLS105 – Theories of Comparative Politics
With Professor R. Hinckley 2008
With Professor M. Bouraad-Nash
POLS114 – Democracy and Diversity
With Professor E. Barvosa
POLS115 – Law in the Modern State
With Professor G. Binion
POLS119 – Ethical Issues in International Relations
With Professor P. Digeser 2007
POLS189 – Contemporary Political Theory
With Professor C. McKoy 2009