The political theory subfield engages normative questions about politics.  It includes faculty and graduate students from several departments, and it has particular interests in contemporary political theory, political concepts, democratic theory, and ethics & international relations.

Political Science Faculty
Peter Digeser: power, identity, forgiveness, ethics in international relations, friendship and politics
Andrew Norris: political philosophy after Heidegger, the history of moral and political philosophy, anti-liberalism and the politics of authenticity, Stanley Cavell and ordinary language philosophy, Hegel

Affiliated Faculty and Collaborators
Edwina Barvosa (Department of Chicana/o Studies, Affiliated Faculty): intellectual history, Latino/a politics, political identity, multi-racial democracy, Latino/a political participation
Cedric J. Robinson (Department of Black Studies, Affiliated Faculty): modern political thought, radical social theory