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Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies

• Affiliation(s)

  • Department of Women's Studies

• Fields of Study

  • Political Theory
  • Gender and Politics/Feminist Theory
  • Race, Ethnicity and Politics

• Education

  • Brandeis University, Ph.D. (Politics)
  • Reed College, B.A. (Political Science)

• Awards

  • Michigan Humanities Award, Office of the Vice President for Research, University of Michigan (Fall 2008)
  • Faculty Enhancement Award, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan (2003)
  • Award for Best Article Published in 1999, Women and Politics Section, American Political Science Association (2000)

• Grants

  • Residency Fellowship, The Camargo Foundation (Winter 2009)
  • Faculty Seed Grant, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan (2008)
  • NEH/Mellon Long Term Fellowship (September 2003-May 2004)

• Presentations

  • Politics that Matter: Thinking about Power and Justice with the New Materialists (co-authored with Bonnie Washick) (WPSA Annual Meeting, March 2012)
  • Staging Reception: Aristophanes' Frogs and Political Moeurs in Absolutist France (Legacies of Greek Political Thought, University of Reading, December 2011)
  • Political Theory and/as Genre Theory (APSA Annual Meeting, September 2011)

• Selected Publications:

• Books

  • (2000) Rousseau's Republican Romance

• Articles

  • (2012) Sovereign Address, Political Theory
  • (2010) Philoctetes in the Bastille, Cultural Critique