Curriculum VitaeEDUCATION
Ph.D. in Political Science | Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania, United States | 2005 Master of Arts in Liberal Studies | New School for Social Research | New York, New York, United States | 2001 Master of Business Administration & Bachelor of Business Administration | Institute of Business Administration | Karachi, Pakistan | 1998 EXPERIENCE Professor of Politics and Philosophy | Bard College at Simon's Rock | Great Barrington, MA | 07/2020 – present | Associate Professor, 2010-2020 | Assistant Professor, 2005-2010) Director of Advanced Studies | Bard College at Simon's Rock | Great Barrington, MA | 06/2019 – present Dean of Academics and Professor of the Liberal Arts | Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture | Karachi, Pakistan | 07/2018 – 01/2020 Emily H. Fisher Faculty Fellow | Bard College at Simon's Rock | Great Barrington, MA | 2015 – 2017 Faculty Convenor, Study Group on Institutional Transition and Mission | Bard College at Simon's Rock | Great Barrington, MA | 2014 – 2016 Division Head for Social Studies | Bard College at Simon's Rock | Great Barrington, MA | 2011 – 2015 Founding Director | Hic Rosa: An Art, Education, and Politics Collective | Richmond, MA | 2015 – present OTHER TEACHING & RESEARCH POSITIONS Fulbright-Masaryk Distinguished Chair in Social Studies | Thomas G. Masaryk University and the Czech Fulbright Commission | Brno, Czech Republic | Spring 2018 Guest Professor | Karlshochschule International University | Karlsruhe, Germany | February 2019 Visiting Faculty | Bard Microcollege and Bard Prison Initiative | Holyoke, MA | Summer 2017 Associate Faculty | Brooklyn Institute for Social Research | Brooklyn, NY | 2015 - Present Guest Professor | Faculty of Social Sciences, Masaryk University | Brno, Czech Republic | Summer 2011 Visiting Research Fellow | Long Room Hub, Trinity College | Dublin, Ireland | Summer 2011 Guest Researcher | European Centre for Gender Excellence , Örebro University | Örebro, Sweden | December 2010 Affiliate Faculty | Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program, Union Institute & University | Cincinnati, OH | 2010-2016 Scholar-in-Residence | Union Institute & University | Summer 2010 Graduate Instructor | Political Theory, Pennsylvania State University | State College, PA | 2002 - 2005 Graduate Instructor | Comparative Politics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, PA | 2003 Research Assistant | The Lobby Project, Pennsylvania State University | State College, PA | 2002 Teaching Assistant | Political Theory and Comparative Politics | Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA | 2001 - 2002 Teaching Assistant | Liberal Studies, Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, New School for Social Research | New York, NY | 1999 - 2000 Research Assistant | American Law and Society, Eugene Lang College, New School for Social Research | New York, NY | 1999 PARA-PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES & INTERNSHIPS Convenor and Anchor | Saturday Studio Sessions: Assembling the Future Tense and Timescapes on Tuesdays | Hic Rosa Collective, Falsework School, and Advanced Studies @ Simon’s Rock | March – May 2020 Founder | ACCREW Caucus of Art, Education, Community, and Culture Workers | February 2020 - present Guest Editor | Hybrid: An International Interdisciplinary Art & Design Journal | Karachi, Pakistan | 2019 – 2021 Co-founder | Society for Education and the Arts | Pakistan | 2019 Organizer and Convenor | Future/Tense: A Symposium on Education in Art, Design, and Humanities | Indus Valley School of Art & Architecture | Karachi, Pakistan | 2018 Director | Studio in Materialist and Decolonial Politics & Aesthetics | Hic Rosa Collective, Masaryk University, and Moravská Galerie | Brno, Czech Republic | Summer 2018 Organizer | Conference on The Architecture of Partnership: Cooperation, Collaboration, Conviviality | Bard College at Simon’s Rock | Great Barrington, MA | Spring 2017 Invited Expert | Study Group on Citizenship, Identity, Democracy | Erikson Institute, Austen Riggs Centre | Stockbridge, MA | Fall 2017 Director | Studio in Materialist and Decolonial Politics & Aesthetics | Hic Rosa Collective & University of Granada | Granada, Spain | Summer 2017 Participant | Critical Theory Workshop | University of the Sorbonne | Paris, France | Summer 2016 Organizer and Educator | Making America Again Workshop Series | Falsework School, Hic Rosa Collective, Town of Richmond, and Norman Rockwell Museum | Berkshire County, MA | Summer and Fall 2016 Organizer | Conference on Academy and Polity in the Age of Austerity | Bard College at Simon’s Rock | Great Barrington, MA | Fall 2015 Organizer | Annual Summits on Early College | Bard College at Simon’s Rock | Great Barrington, MA | 2015 - 2017 Organizer | Conference on Materialism and the Colony | Bard College at Simon's Rock | Great Barrington, MA | 2013 Participant | New York State Summer Writers' Institute | Skidmore College | Saratoga Springs, NY | 2007 Participant | Northeast Political Theory Reading Group | Albany, NY | 2005-2009 Executive Board Member | Society for Social and Political Philosophy | 2005 - 2006 Vice President | Association for South Asia Research | Pennsylvania State University | State College, PA | 2003 - 2005 Organizer | Conference on Art, Nature, Will: Engaging Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Pennsylvania State University | State College, PA | 2004 Organizing Committee Member | Conference on The Emergence of Globalisation and the Americas, 1492-2002 | Pennsylvania State University | State College, PA | 2003 Co-Chair | Graduate and Fixed-Term Employees’ Organization, American Federation of Teachers | Pennsylvania State University | State College, PA | 2001 - 2002 Intern | IUCN: The World Conservation Union | Karachi, Pakistan | 1998 Intern | NGO Resource Centre: A Project of the Aga Khan Foundation | Karachi, Pakistan | 1998 Organizer and Director | Artifice (Karachi’s first social/political theatre festival) | Karachi, Pakistan | 1998 Project Leader | Adopt-a-School Program, Sindh Education Foundation | Institute of Business Administration | Karachi, Pakistan | 1997 - 1998 Project Lead | Street Theatre Project | Institute of Business Administration | Karachi, Pakistan | 1997 - 1998 Intern | Network Television Marketing (Pakistan’s 1st Private TV Channel) | Karachi, Pakistan | 1997 Editor | Pandora | Institute of Business Administration | Karachi, Pakistan | 1995 - 1997 Intern | SHE Magazine (Pakistan’s First and Oldest Women’s Publication) | Karachi, Pakistan | 1994 Contributor | The Review | Karachi, Pakistan | 1991 - 1998 Editor | The Citizen | The City School | Karachi, Pakistan | 1992 - 1994 HONORS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS The Wendy Shifrin Award for Mentorship of Students and Colleagues | Bard College at Simon's Rock | 2017 Fulbright-Masaryk University Distinguished Chair in Social Studies | Czech Fulbright Commission | 2017 - 2018 Berkshires 25 “Most Talented, Most Creative, Most Dedicated ” Award | Berkshire County, MA | 2017 Scholar-in-Residence | Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, University of British Columbia | 2017 (not availed) Emily H. Fisher Faculty Fellow | Bard College at Simon's Rock | 2015 John A. Glover Award for Excellence in Teaching | Bard College at Simon’s Rock | 2015 John A. Glover Award for Excellence in Teaching | Bard College at Simon’s Rock | 2009 Best Paper Award Shortlist for “AnOther Love” | APSA Foundations of Political Theory | 2010 Finalist | Race and Difference Initiative Fellowship | Emory University | 2008 Best Paper Award Nomination for “In Representation: Suffering, Liberalism, and the Enactments of Injury" | APSA Foundations of Political Theory | 2006 Newcomer’s Award | Bard College at Simon’s Rock | 2006 Summer Residency | Institute of Arts and Humanities, Pennsylvania State University | 2004 Dissertation Fellowship | College of Liberal Arts, Pennsylvania State University | 2004 Outstanding Graduate Student Award | Department of Political Science, Pennsylvania State University | 2003 College of Liberal Arts Scholarship | Pennsylvania State University | 2001 - 2003 Graduate Assistantship | Department of Political Science, Pennsylvania State University | 2001 - 2005 Bruce Miller Fellowship | Pennsylvania State University | 2000 - 2001 Honors Awarded to Master of Arts Thesis Indian Literature and the Grand March: A Story of the Progressive Writers' Movement | New School for Social Research | 2000 University Fellowship | New School for Social Research | May 2000 (not availed) Scholarship for the Democracy and Diversity Summer Institute | Transregional Centre for Democratic Studies, New School for Social Research | Krakow, Poland | 1999 Tuition Scholarship | New School University | 1999, 2000 Shell Strategic Policy Gold, MBA Silver, BBA Silver, and International Trade Gold Medals | Institute of Business Administration | 1997 - 1998 PUBLICATIONS Refereed Monographs Published 2018 | Another Love: A Politics of the Unrequited. London; Baltimore: Rowman and Littlefield 2010 | Liberalism and Human Suffering: Materialist Reflections on Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics. London; New York: Palgrave Macmillan In Progress Anti-Odysseus: Fugues of the Non-Homeric Falsework, Smalltalk: Political Education, Aesthetic Archives, and Recitations of a Future in Common Translations Tufail Abbas’s Struggle for Freedom After Freedom, Memoirs of a Life in the Pakistani Labour Movement (published online) Other essays from Monthly Manshoor (for online archive) Scholarly Essays, Chapters, and Reviews Refereed Publications 2020 “No Demos in the Pandemic” | Democratic Theory “Ep(idem)ic Betrayals” | Danachgedenken – Day-Afterthoughts | Goethe Institute International 2017 “From the Love Studio” | Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 2016 “Spaces of Newness in a World of Crises: Imagining Philosophy Beyond the Party of Order” | Blog of the American Philosophical Association 2014 “In Love, In Terror, Out of Time” | Sherene Razack & Suvendrini Pereira eds., At the Limits of Justice: Women of Color Theorize Terror, Toronto: University of Toronto Press “Class” | Michael Gibbons, ed., Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Political Thought, Wiley-Blackwell “Love” | Michael Gibbons, ed., Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Political Thought “Ressentiment” | Michael Gibbons, ed., Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Political Thought 2012 “On Midnight’s Children and Reading Politically” | Bernard Rodgers, ed., Critical Insights: Salman Rushdie, Salem Press 2011 “Timescapes of Love and Marginality” | Working Paper Series, Centre for Gender Excellence, Orebro University, Sweden (with multiple co-authors) “At Home with Uncanny Labors: A Case of Working and Thinking the Social Sciences” | Nancy Yanoshak, ed., Educating Outside the Lines: Bard College at Simon’s Rock on A ‘New Pedagogy’ For The Twenty-First Century, Peter Lang 2010 “Voice Lessons: Suffering and the Liberal Sensorium” |Theory and Event 13(2) 2009 “On the Young Marx,” Review of David Leopold’s The Young Karl Marx | Journal of Politics 2005 “Damages Inc.: Making the Sublime Matter” | Politics and Culture 6 (2) In Progress “Contemporary Fascism and the Crisis of the Secular Sensorium: Aesthetic Production in the Global Postcolony” “The Fanatic and the Case for an Inefficient Politics.” Non-Refereed Publications 2018 Hic Rosa co-edited anthology: In the Names of...: Re/in/citing Politics After Capital & Colony 2017 Hic Rosa co-edited anthology: Study/Struggle Refuge 2016 Hic Rosa co-edited anthologies – Building Communities of Study, Thought, and Practice Unsuspected Wordsmiths: Writing and Reading America Artworking the Berkshires Listen in: Hearing and Speaking America For the Love of the World: On the Seventh Day in America “From Which One Will Never Recover Unscarred”: Racism in the Berkshires 1996 Pandora: an anthology of creative writing (as contributor, editor, and publisher) “Media Reality—Out of Bounds?” | Communication Arts Conference, Karachi 1995 “Of Liberty, Liberalism, Envy, and Hope” | The News on Sunday, Karachi “After Babri Masjid: Hindu Temples in Karachi” |Tuesday Review, Dawn, Karachi 1994 “Parallel Cinema: Portraying Poetic Realism” | Tuesday Review, Dawn, Karachi “The Misfits Club” |Tuesday Review, Dawn, Karachi 1992 “On the Edge” |The Magazine, Dawn, Karachi CONFERENCE PAPERS 2018 “Finders Keepers, Losers Readers: Toward a Hermeneutics of Longing” | American Political Science Association | Boston Roundtable and Hic Rosa Workshop on Study/Struggle/Refuge | Critical Ethnic Studies Association | Vancouver 2017 “Promissory Notes: The Fanatic, the Traitor, and Politics Contra Sovereignty” | American Political Science Association | San Francisco 2016 “Unbinding Cold Flesh: Staging Politics and Unsettling the Sediments of Colony, Nation, and State” | National Women’s Studies Association | Montreal “Provincializing Europe’s Fanatics and the Politics that Remains” | Association for Political Theory | Columbus 2015 “Spare(d) Fulfilments, Please: Materialists in Love” | American Political Science Association | San Francisco “Necropolitics as Story: On the Possibility of the Subject of Politics” | Western Political Science Association | Las Vegas 2014 “Bodies Made and Unmade, and the Time After: Aesthetics and Politics in Our Colony” | University of Manchester Centre for Political Theory | Manchester 2011 “The Butcher’s Wife and Other Stories of Love, Terror, and Time” | American Political Science Association | Seattle 2010 “Timescapes of Love and Marginality” | GEXcel Conference on "Love in Our Time: A Question for Feminism" | Örebro University | Sweden “Heimlich Maneouvres: Time, Space and Marginality” | Western Political Science Association | San Francisco 2009 “AnOther Love” | American Political Science Association | Toronto 2008 “Not Home: Anticolonial Desire and Suspicious Space” | "Love in Our Time" Conference | Research Network on Love | University of Manchester “Home, Desire, Space” | Foundations of Political Theory Workshop on Political Myth, Rhetoric, and Symbolism | American Political Science Association | Boston 2006 “Against Garrulity” | Association of Political Theory | Bloomington “Tragedy’s Ordinary? A Case for a Historical Materialism of Suffering” | American Political Science Association | Philadelphia “In Representation: Suffering, Liberalism and the Enactments of Injury” | Foundations of Political Theory Workshop on Political Myth, Rhetoric, and Symbolism | American Political Science Association | Washington, DC “The Labour of Suffering” | American Political Science Association | Chicago 2003 “Injury and its Accomplices: Investigating the Labour of Suffering” | Society for Social and Political Philosophy | American Philosophical Association | Washington, DC “Suffering Liberalism” | American Political Science Association | Philadelphia 2002 “The Tragic Art of the Historical Materialist: Marx and the Memory of Injury” | American Political Science. Association | Boston “The Tragic Art of the Historical Materialist: The Memory of Injury in Marx’s Brumaire” | International Conference on the 150th Anniversary of the Publication of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte | Murphy Institute, Tulane University | New Orleans PRESENTATIONS AND LECTURES Invited Engagements 2020 “Keeping Freedom in View: Community, Justice, Political Education, and the Question of Power” | Multicultural BRIDGE Conference on Moving the Dial on Race, Class, and Strategies for Justice | Curator and Moderator “Election Night” Livestream and Podcast | Brooklyn Institute for Social Research | Panelist “The Overdetermined Election” Panel Livestream and Podcast | Brooklyn Institute for Social Research | Panelist Teach-in on Abolitionism | Brooklyn Institute for Social Research | Discussant “‘Against Witness’: On Assia Djebar's Films” | Wallach Gallery | Columbia University | Speaker 2019 “Contemporary Fascism and the Crisis of the Secular Sensorium: Aesthetic Production in the Global Postcolony" | The “Affect, Propaganda, and Political Imagination” Symposium | OISE, University of Toronto | Contributor “Disentangling Futures? Academic Freedom and Research Conditions in South Asia and Europe” | International Convention of Asia Scholars—ICAS 11 | University of Leiden, Netherlands | Panelist “Anticolonial Maps for Lost Lovers: Notes on the Politics and Aesthetics of Method” | Annual Humanities and Social Sciences Conference | Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore | Keynote Speaker 2018 “On Neoliberalism and its Demons” | Afkar-e-Taaza Conference | Institute of Business Administration, Karachi | Panelist “Studio/Study: Directions in Thought and Practice” | Future/Tense: A Symposium| Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi | Chair and Panelist “Am I Imran Khan, or Is Imran Khan Me? Notes Toward a Postcolonial Method for the Present” | Teach-In on Pakistani Elections | Watson Centre for the Study of Contemporary South Asia | Brown University, Providence | Speaker “The Love that Remains and Time Out of Joint” | Hic Rosa Studio and Conference | Moravian Gallery, Brno | Keynote Lecture “The Feminist Fugue” | Barcamp | Nesehnuti, Brno | Speaker “On and of W.E.B. DuBois” | Department of Sociology | Masaryk University, Brno | Speaker and Facilitator “Provocations to Politics and Method in an Age of Austerity, Terror, and Fascism” | Annual Mid-year Conference of the Czech and Slovak Fulbright Commissions, Trest | Speaker “The Political Economy of Injury” | Institute of Business Administration, Karachi | Speaker “Bodies in Pieces: The Poetics & Aesthetics of Politics” | LA Talks | Indus Valley School of Art & Architecture, Karachi | Speaker 2017 “Sexual Politics" | WAM Theatre, Lenox | Speaker "Seeing Red: Commemorating the October Revolution" | Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, New York | Panelist “Humanities and Inhumanities” | Bard Microcollege, Holyoke | Speaker Erikson Institute Study Group on “Citizenship, Identity, Democracy” | Austen Riggs Centre, Stockbridge | Contributor “Unwilling Ends” | Vulnerabilities Conference | Silesian Museum and the University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland | Keynote Speaker "With George Orwell’s 1984" | United States of Cinema Screening | Triplex Cinema, Great Barrington | Speaker “On the Refugee Crisis” | Four Freedoms Series Town Hall | Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge | Panelist “Study/Struggle/Refuge” | Cashmere Radio, Berlin Transmediale | Invited Radio Study Session as Hic Rosa Collective “Loves Notes to Materialists, Under the Moon of Necropolitical Austerity” | "Finance/Capital/Aesthetics" Conference | University of California at Irvine | Speaker 2015 “Provincializing Sovereignty; or, the words I must look up every time I use them” | Conference on "Rethinking Sovereignty" | University at Albany | Contributor “The Not Now Complex; dramatic notes on ordinary suffering and its politics” | Department of Comparative Literature, University of California at Irvine | Guest Faculty 2012 “In Love, In Terror, Out of Time” | Conference on "Violence in a Far Country: Women Scholars of Color Theorize Terror" | OISE, University of Toronto | Contributor “On Public Discourse” | Four Freedoms Series | Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge | Speaker 2011 “Love and the Requitals of Politics”| Bennington College, Vermont | Speaker “Making Suffering Matter” | St. Michael’s College of Vermont | Speaker “Love, Suffering, and the Unrequited: Some Initiations into a Materialist Politics of the Anticolonial Kind.”| Syracuse University Humanities Centre | Speaker and Guest Faculty “A Materialism Worth Suffering: Marx on the Living and the Dead In Us” | Conference on "Does Marx Still Matter?" | Lewis University, Chicago | Speaker 2010 “Eleven Theses on Love, Marginality, and the Anticolonial” | Summer Residency | Union Institute & University, Cincinnati | Keynote Speaker “Politics and the Privilege of Ordinary Heartbreak” | TEDx Berkeley | Speaker 2009 “Making Suffering Matter”| Feminisms for the 21st Century Lecture Series | Union College, Albany | Speaker “Hannah Arendt and the Banality of Evil: Reflections on Moral Blindness” | Roundtable at The Hannah Arendt Centre for Ethical and Political Thinking and The Human Rights Project | Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson | Participant 2005 Annual Fellows Roundtable, Institute for Arts and Humanities | Pennsylvania State University | Invited Participant At Bard College at Simon's Rock 2017 “Classrooms with No Walls: The Muslim, Refugee, Immigrant Ban” | Teach-In | Organizer and Participant 2013 “DeBeauvoir and Friends: Thinking about Modernity, Violence, and Commitment.” | Roundtable | Organizer and Participant 2012 “Rousseau and Locke: Three Stories of Politics.” | Annual Freshman Seminar Lecture 2011 “Classrooms Without Walls.”| Teach-In | Organizer and Facilitator Simon’s Rock Forum on Revolutions in the Middle-East | Participant 2009 “Reckoning the Modern: Traverses and Tangents” | Roundtable | Organizer and Participant 2007 “Walking on Walls: Notes on W.E.B. DuBois and E.M. Forster” | Annual Seminar Lecture 2006 “Evolution, Relativity, and Cosmic Dissolution: Science, Modernity, and the Challenges of Epistemological Relativism” | Roundtable Participant “Imaginary Strangers and the Postmodern Socrates?” : Introducing Kwame Anthony Appiah | Annual Book One Series Diversity and Social Justice Teach-Ins/Workshops Co-organized and/or (Co-)Facilitated 2020 "The Architecture of Resilience: Life, Knowledge, and Power in the Contemporary Moment" "The Jam: Political Therapy in a Squeeze" "Afterlives & Afterimages of the Colony" 2016 “Freedom is a Constant Struggle: From Standing Rock to Aleppo” 2015 “Race and Religion in the Stories of our Lives” 2014-17 “A Theatre of the Haunted and the Hushed: An Exercise with Amir Nizar Zuabi and Remembering Conflict in the Present” 2014 “Songs of the Castaway and the Voices of the Invisible: The State of the Stateless in South Asia” “Muslim Identity in the Age of ISIS” “Did you say ‘Ferguson’?” 2013 “Hearts of Whiteness” 2009 “Hearing Voices: Echoes and Reverberations of a Rap on Race” 2008 “‘Sick in the Head?’ Of Person, Politics, Pathology, and Community.” “The Bystander Goes to the Movies” 2006 “‘I am Tired of Talking About This...’—On the Limits of Liberal Reasoning” “Where Do We Go From Here? Rethinking Diversity, Reimagining Conviviality” COURSES DEVELOPED AND TAUGHT (and year taught) Foundations Courses Prefacing Politics, Prefiguring Subjects | 2019 Introduction to Politics: Concept, Domain, Discipline | offered annually Interrogating Institutions: Introduction to Political Process and Inquiry | 2020 Modern Political Ideologies | 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013 Politics and the Passions | 2003, 2004, 2005 The Political Imagination |2002 Intermediate Courses The Ignorance of Schoolmasters and the Scandal of Democracy: Education, Emancipation, Politics | 2015, 2020 Fanon and Said | 2019 The Artist as Worker and Other Stories | 2019 (Indus Valley School) Fugue States: The Politics of Refuge, Exile, and Fugitivity | 2017 (Twilight of the) American Idol(s): Experiments in American Political Thought | 2007, 2010, 2016 Resist, Remember, Redeem, Remake: The Aesthetics and Poetics of Politics | 2014 Seminar in Global Politics | 2011, 2014 Sophomore Seminar: Voices Against the Chorus | 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011 Transformations, Boundaries, Crossings | 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 Seminar in Comparative Politics | 2006, 2008, 2009 Colonial Loves: Cultural Politics, Colonialism and After | 2007 Star-Crossed Lovers: The Politics and Philosophy of Modern Freedom | 2006 Politics, Memory, History | 2004, 2005 Advanced Undergraduate and Graduate Courses Critical Aesthetic Theory | 2020 The Medieval Body | 2020 (Brooklyn Institute) Research Studio in Post-Democracy | 2020 The Democratic Imagination | 2009, 2013, 2019 The Feminine and the Political, or, How I Learnt to Stop Worrying & Love the Man | 2010, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 (taught various versions at Simon’s Rock, Brooklyn Institute, Masaryk University, Indus Valley School) Capital and Colony: Histories, Formations, and Lifeworlds of Empires | 2014, 2018 Against Capital and Colony: Conjuring Life Despite/Without/After Empire | 2015, 2018 Race, Religion, and the Feminine: Postcolonial and Postsoviet Formations | 2018 (Masaryk University) Assia Djebar: Fiction, Feminism, and Anti-Nationalism | 2017 Marx After Marx | 2007, 2012, 2017 bell hooks: Desire, Education, Freedom | 2017 (Brooklyn Institute) On Consent | 2017 Timescapes and Topographies of the Post/Colony: The Politics of Cultural Forms | 2016 Contra Diction: The Politics of Listening | 2016 James Baldwin and Friends: Lovers with Questions, Native Sons without Country | 2015, 2016 (at Simon’s Rock w/ Wesley Brown, and at Brooklyn Institute) Who the People: Punctuating Politics in the USA, Being America in the World | 2016 Academy and Polity | 2015-16 Spirited Away: Questions of God in Politics | 2007, 2015 Threshold Lives, Live Thresholds |2014 Politics by Other Means II: Citizens, Soldiers, Revolutionaries | 2008, 2013 What’s the Matter with Minerva’s Owl? On Time and Timeliness in Social Research | 2011-12 Rousseau and Friends: Politics versus Anti-politics in Modernity | 2011 Politics and the Popular | 2011 (Advanced Tutorial) Theatre’s Necessities | 2010 (Advanced Tutorial) Democracy and Difference | 2010 (at Union Institute and University’s Doctoral Programme in Social Justice) Politics by Other Means I: Social Movements and Political Action | 2006, 2009 Social Action Workshop | 2006, 2009 Home and the Haunts of Modernity | 2008-09 Marginalia: Encounters with Borders and Frontiers | 2006 THESIS ADVISING B.A. Theses as Advisor (selected titles) 2019 Safi Alsebai | “ ‘An Image With A Lowing Sound’: Medieval Islam, Modernity, and Politics as Seeing” Nathaniel Madison | “1968 and the Crisis of European Memory: Nation, Internationalism, Visual Culture” Ezra Lee | “Layers of Dust: Political Moments of Work, Land, and Agriculture” 2017 Lillian Goldberg | “As She Herself Might Have Told It: Relating Politics and Feminism as Method” Anna Poplawski | “To Will an End: Outliving Sexual Violence and State Sovereignty” Avonlea Fisher | “Sex Work, Drugs, and Decriminalization: Toward a Politics of Harm Reduction” Isabel O’Donnell | “The Document of Film: Politics, Aesthetics, and the Production of Value” Sara Aboobakar | “Unseen Histories: A Visual Study of Political Presence and Aesthetic Representation” Isabella Lee | “Both an Iteration and an Itinerant Be: With the Student-Subject, In and Beyond the University” 2016 Cameron Powell | “In the Sunlit Prison of Heaven: Salvation, Statehood, and the Religious Politics of Emancipation” Brianna Pope | “This Body is Not for Sale: Reading, Writing, and Imagining Black Women” 2015 Colin Eubank | “States of Refuge: Moving Bodies and Emerging Politics” 2014 Lucy Peterson | “ ‘This is my body’: Explorations of Sexuality, Christianity, and Suicide” 2013 Jonathan Durfee | “Staging the Scandal of Democracy: Politics and Aesthetics in the Tunisian Revolution” Taylor Horn | “Static (of) American Democracy: The Electoral Campaign as Institution” 2012 Starling Carter | “The Witness and the Cyborg: Adventures in Virtuality, Intimacy, and Politics” Ari Fogelson | “Murder Motifs: Politics and History in Jean Genet’s The Maids” Elizabeth Glass | “Theatre Contra Theatre: Essays and Plays Toward a Revival of Politics” Mirah Sand | “Implications of Faith in Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed: ‘Un-doing’ the Radical Educator” Milo Ward | “In the Desert: Reflections on Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Letter on Poland” Lukas Fuchshofen | “From Techne to Transhumanism: An Inquiry into the Nature, History, and Theory of Technology” Jeffrey Landale | “Home and the World: A Critique of Unschooling’s Ideology” Jake Levy | “Fabricating Illness: Reflections on Hypochondriasis” 2011 Jamila BenKhoud | “From the Few to the Many: Education and the Creation of 3 Nations in India” 2010 Elizabeth Davis | “Woman’s Body, Modern War: Forming the Feminine in the Age of Industry” Jessica Lee | “The Town Hall and Democracy: Explorations in Political Space” Andrew Levin | “Healthcare Reform in the Welfare State: A Case Study of Contemporary American Liberalism in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” 2009 Laura Cheung | “Un-Nailin’ Palin: The Making and Unmaking of a Woman in Politics” Brendan Flynn | “Labyrinths of the Object: The Strange Case of Nietzsche’s Wagner” Dara Levy-Bernstein | “Lands on the Edge of Land: Imagining Jewish Peoplehood and Attachment to Israel” Nuola Akinde | “Beauty is Pain: Articulating Mutilation and Subjecthood” 2008 Brian Smith | “The Legacy and Ideology of American Copyright Law” Matthew Vitemb | “A Fan-Fic Thesis [on trauma, the body and performance]” 2007 Olen Helgesen | “Implications of the Case of the Republic of Korea for Civil-Military Relations Theory” Thomas Willkens | “Amor Cambium, Neologos and Cliché: Towards a Creative Pragmatism” 2006 Ajay Madiwale | “Enlightened Partitions: Political Liberalism and the Foreclosing of a United India” B.A. Theses as Reader (only selected/representative titles) 2017 Natalie Desrosiers | “Toward A Black Radical Revival Alana Pagano | “‘A Child in Whom Death Dances Exultantly’: Scenes of Melancholia in Elias Khoury’s Gate of the Sun” 2015 Ciarán Finlayson | “Luxuriant Withholding: Blackness and Concept in the Event of Charles Gaines” Marisa Benitez | “Vers(us) Translation: Emmanuel Dongala’s Jazz and Palm Wine” Zara Anwarzai | “Agency within Authenticity, or How I Finally Found(ed) My Self” 2011 Rodman Parvin | “The Politics of Apathy: A Slipstream Manifesto” 2009 Jaime Barak | “Interactions between Jews and Ukrainians in Nineteenth-Century Galicia” Christina Horton | “Fantasies of African Suffering” 2008 Laurel Harig | “Through the Red Window and Letters Home” Beeta Jahedi | “From Scheherzade to Farsh: Interactions & Interviews with Women in Iran” 2007 Katherine Bradshaw | “Subversive Cinema” Katharina Kempf | “La Lucha Sigue: The Movement for a People’s Government in Oaxaca” 2006 Edward Oliver | “Reorienting Turkey: Debating Access to the European Union” Casey Roncoroni | “Artistic Expression: Locating the Sublime in the First Amendment” Doctoral Theses 2019 | Elizabeth Davis, OISE, University of Toronto (in process) 2015 | Ryan Schowen, Humanities and Political Theory, Union Institute & University 2014 | Cheryl Chaffin, Humanities, Union Institute & University 2011 | Tanushree Ghosh, English, Syracuse University SERVICE Institutional Service Service to Bard College at Simon’s Rock Director of Advanced Studies | 2019-present Emily H. Fisher Faculty Fellow | 2015-2017 Member | Senior Leadership Team | 2015-2017 Member | Provost’s Council on Equity and Inclusion | 2016-2019 Member | Bard Early Colleges Faculty Exchange and Oversight Committee | 2015-2018 Convener | Simon’s Rock Study Group for Institutional Transition and Mission | 2014-2016 Chair | Division of Social Studies | 2011-15 Member | Policy & Program Committee | 2011-15 General Education Reform & Review Committees | 2010-14 (Served as member, sub-committee chair, and coordinator) Proseminar on Social, Political, and Humanistic Inquiry | Founding Faculty, 2007-08 | Director, 2008-09, 2011-15 Member | Standards and Procedures Committee Campus Sexual Assault Responder Member | Anti-Harassment and Anti-Discrimination Committee | 2006-08, 2008-10 Member | Race Task Force, Bard College at Simon’s Rock | 2005-07 Faculty Advisor | Owl’s Nest Coalition/Black Student Union, 2007-09 | Politics Society, 2005-08 | Model United Nations, 2005- 09 | Students for Social Thought and Research, 2009-2014 Faculty Search Committees: Economics, History, African and African-American Studies, Anthropology, Philosophy Other Institutions Member | Executive Director and Dean Search Committee | Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture | 2020 Member | Board of Governors, Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture | 2018-2020 Member | IVS Society | 2018-2020 Member (ex officio) | Executive Committee, Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture | 2018-2020 Member (ex officio) | Finance and Planning Committee, Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture | 2018-2020 Chair (ex officio) | Academic Committee, Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture | 2018-2020 Chair (ex officio) | Faculty Title and Award Committee, Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture | 2018-2020 Chair (ex officio) |Admissions Committee, Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture | 2018-2020 Founder and Co-Chair (ex officio) | IVS Faculty Council | 2018-2020 External Member (nominated by the Governor of Sindh) | Academic Council, Dawood University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi | 2019- Member | Board of Studies, Social Development and Policy Program | Habib University, Karachi | 2018-2020 Service to the Academy and Profession Reviewer/Referee Journals | Hypatia, Politics and Gender, Contemporary Political Theory, PS: Political Science and Politics, Journal of Third World Studies Presses | Oxford University Press, Routledge, Pearson Longman Academic Conferences and Professional Organizations 2019 Panel on “Affective Publics” | International Convention of Asia Scholars—ICAS 1 | University of Leiden, Netherlands | Discussant 2018 Panel on “Chronicles of Dissensual Times” | American Political Science Association | Discussant 2016 Panel on “Aesthetics, Experience, and the Polis” | Association for Political Theory, Columbus | Discussant Program Committee | Association for Political Theory | Member Panel on “Empire and Anti-Colonialism” | Western Political Science Association, San Diego | Discussant 2014 Panel on “Wandering, Migration, Statelessness” | Western Political Science Association, Las Vegas | Chair and Discussant Panel on “Life and Death, Process and Finality” | American Political Science Association | Washington, DC | Discussant 2013 Panel on “Society Through Contemporary Lens” | American Political Science Association, Chicago | Chair 2011 Panel on “New Slaveries” | American Political Science Association, Seattle | Discussant 2010 Panel on “Illegitimate Speakers: Voice, Reception, and Political Space” | Western Political Science Association, San Francisco | Chair 2009 Panel on “The Reach of Method: Foundations, Insinuations and Complicities in Politics.” | New England Political Science Association, Portland | Discussant 2008-9 New England Political Science Association | Section Chair for Political Theory 2008 Panel on “Aesthetics and Democracy?” | American Political Science Association, Boston | Chair Panel on “Colonial, Racial, and Ethnic Injustices and Inequalities" | American Political Science Association, Boston | Chair 2006 Workshop on “Myths of Time” | Foundations of Political Theory Workshop on Political Myth, Rhetoric, and Symbolism | American Political Science Association, Philadelphia | Facilitator 2005 Panel on “Who Cares?” | American Political Science Association, Washington, DC | Chair 2004 Panel on “Problems of Subjectivity and Citizenship” | American Political Science Association, Chicago | Chair Workshop on “Rhetoric for Democracies” | Foundations Workshop on Political Myth, Rhetoric, and Symbolism | American Political Science Association, Chicago | Facilitator Panel on “Political Theory Goes to the Movies.” | Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago | Discussant Panel on “Accountability and Ignorance” | Rock Ethics Institute Conference on Ethics and Epistemologies of Ignorance, Pennsylvania State University | Chair 2003 Panel on “Spectres of the Public: Politics as Spectacle” | American Political Science Association, Philadelphia | Chair and Discussant Panels on “Space and Time Between Postcolonialism & Globalisation” and “On the Subject & Matter of Subjectivity” | Penn State Americanists Conference on The Emergence of Globalisation and the Americas, 1492-2002 | Moderator and Discussant |