Kevin Pham is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Gettysburg College. He is a political theorist whose research explores theories of colonialism, otherness/identity, freedom, and democracy through cross-cultural analysis that challenges and enhances the way we understand the canon of political theory. His current book project explores how Vietnamese thinkers of the early twentieth century adapted Asian and European political theories for their aims of national dignity and self-determination from French colonial rule. His work appears in journals such as The Review of Politics, Polity, New Political Science, The European Legacy, Montaigne Studies, and Contemporary Political Theory. Three of these articles are the first to introduce Vietnamese political thought to debates in political theory. ... Read more about Kevin D. Pham
Jennifer Pitts is Professor of Political Science and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Her new book, Boundaries of the International: Law and Empire (HUP 2018) explores European debates over legal relations with extra-European societies during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She is also author of A Turn to Empire: the rise of imperial liberalism in Britain and France (Princeton 2005); co-editor of The Law of Nations in Global History (Oxford 2017); and editor and translator of Alexis de Tocqueville: writings on empire and slavery (Johns Hopkins 2001). Her research interests lie in the fields of modern political and international thought, particularly British and French thought of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; empire; the history of international law; and global justice. She co-edits the Cambridge University Press series Ideas in Context.
Or Rosenboim is a historian of political thought whose work focuses on international thought in the twentieth century. She has published on the idea of globalism and on various theories of world order in British and American political thought; her first book, The emergence of globalism: Visions of world order in Britain and the United States, 1939-1950, was published by Princeton University Press in 2017. She is also interested in geopolitics, Italian international thought and imperial history.
Emma Rothschild is Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History at Harvard University. She is Director of the Joint Center for History and Economics, a fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and professeur invitée at the Centre d’Histoire de Sciences Po, Paris. She is involved in collaborative research projects, at the University of Cambridge and at Harvard, on Exchanges of Economic, Legal and Political Ideas and on Visualizing Historical Networks. She is also an Affiliated Faculty member at Harvard Law School. Publications include “Economic History and Nationalism” (Capitalism, Winter 2021), “A (New) Economic History of the American Revolution?” (New England Quarterly, March 2018), "Isolation and Economic Life in Eighteenth-Century France" (American Historical Review, October 2014), Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet and the Enlightenment (Harvard University Press, 2001), The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History (Princeton University Press, 2011), and An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France Over Three Centuries (Princeton University Press, 2021).
Rahul Sagar is a Global Network Associate Professor of Political Science at NYU Abu Dhabi, where he teaches political theory and intellectual history. His research focuses on executive power. His first book Secrets and Leaks: The Dilemma of State Secrecy(Princeton, 2013) received the National Academy of Public Administration’s 2014 Louis Brownlow Award and the Society for the Policy Sciences’ 2015 Myres S. McDougal Prize.
Teren Sevea is a scholar of Islam and Muslim societies in South and Southeast Asia, currently the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies at Harvard Divinity School. Before joining HDS, he served as Assistant Professor of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Sevea is the author of Miracles and Material Life: Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya (Cambridge University Press, 2020), and co-edited Islamic Connections: Muslim Societies in South and Southeast Asia (ISEAS, 2009). He is currently working on a forthcoming book entitled Singapore Islam: The Prophet's Port and Sufism across the Oceans.
Robbie Shilliam researches the political and intellectual complicities of colonialism and race in the global order. He is co-editor of the Rowman & Littlefield book series, Kilombo: International Relations and Colonial Question. Robbie was a co-founder of the Colonial/Postcolonial/Decolonial working group of the British International Studies Association and is a long-standing active member of the Global Development section of the International Studies Association.
Joshua Simon is a political theorist of South and North Americas, now based at the Johns Hopkins University. He studied at Reed College, Yale University, and the Colegio de México, and taught at the New School for Social Research, King’s College London, and Columbia University. In 2018-19, he was the Fulbright-García Robles Chair of U.S. Studies at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de Mexíco (ITAM).... Read more about Joshua Simon
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins is an intellectual historian of modern political thought with a specific focus on Europe and the world from the Cold War to the present. He addresses such topics as liberalism, conservatism, populism, secularism, religion and the Global Cold War. He is an Assistant Professor in the College of Social Studies at Wesleyan University.
Anna Stilz is Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. Her research focuses on questions of political membership, authority and political obligation, nationalism and self-determination, rights to land and territory, and collective agency. She also has a strong interest in modern political thought (especially natural law theory, Rousseau, and Kant).
Nadia Urbinati (PhD, European University Institute, Florence, 1989) is a political theorist interested in modern and contemporary political thought, democratic and anti-democratic traditions. Currently the Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory at Columbia University, she has taught and conducted research at New York University, University of Pennsylvania, the Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University, Universidade Estadual de Campinas in Brazil, as well as Scuola Superiore de Studi Universitari e Perfezionamento Sant'Anna of Pisa and Università degli Studi di Torino in Italy. An award-winning author of numerous books including the most recent Me the People: How Populism Transforms Democracy (Harvard, 2019), Urbinati also co-edits the journal Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory.
Isabella M. Weber is a German-born political economist and economic historian of modern China, currently Assistant Professor of Economics at UMass and Research Leader for China of the Asian Political Economy Program at PERI. Having studied at Freie Universität Berlin, Peking University, New School for Social Research, and the University of Cambridge, she taught at Goldsmiths, University of London, and directed the Economic and Social Research Council (UK)-funded research project “What drives specialisation? A century of global export patterns”, before joining University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she has proved a formidable voice for understanding economic thought, economic history, as well as the normative premises and visions of economics. She is the author of the widely-acclaimed book How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate (discussed in this interview). Her work combines economic theory, economic history and China studies to examine the interaction between economic thinking, policy and long-term structural patterns in periods of deep social transformation. Beyond the walls of academia, she has regularly served as a China expert for BBC News and as adviser to members of the German parliament on China issues.... Read more about Isabella Weber
