Biographies
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Patrick Craig currently teaches courses in political theory at Kent State University. He recently received his PhD in Philosophy from Duquesne University, where he was awarded a fellowship for his dissertation The A Priori Nature of the Political: Democracy and Scientific Method in Thomas Hobbes. His research focuses on the intersection between early modern materialist philosophies and work being done in the contemporary continental philosophical tradition. Patrick can be reached by email at craigp@duq.edu
Stefan Dolgert is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Brock University, where he writes and teaches on democratic theory, critical animal studies, posthumanism, and ancient Greek political thought. His recent and forthcoming publications include a chapter on the human/animal boundary in the Epic of Gilgamesh (in The State of Nature in Comparative Political Thought: Western and Non-Western Perspectives, Lexington Books 2014), and “Vegetarian Republic: Pythagorean Themes in Plato’s Republic” (Proceedings of the World Congress of Philosophy XXIII, forthcoming). Stefan is currently finishing a manuscript on the rich tradition of non-anthropocentric thought in ancient Greece, and can be reached at sdolgert@brocku.ca
Jason Frank is an associate professor of government at Cornell University. He is the author of Constituent Moments: Enacting the People in Postrevolutionary America (Duke UP, 2010), Publius and Political Imagination (Rowman & Littlefield, 2013), and the editor of A Political Companion to Herman Melville (Kentucky UP, 2013). He has published widely on democratic theory, American political thought, politics and literature, and political aesthetics. Jason can be reached at jf273@cornell.edu
Alexander Keller Hirsch is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alaska. His work focuses on political theories of precarity, resilience, attention, and recreation in the aftermath of violence and atrocity. He is the editor of Theorizing Post-Conflict Reconciliation: Agonism, Restitution & Repair, and is currently at work on a book manuscript on forgiveness and promising in tragic political thought. Alex can be reached at ahirsch@alaska.edu
Lida Maxwell is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Trinity College. Her work is focused on the public character of democratic politics, and how this public character transforms (or should transform) our understanding of political problems. She is the author of Public Trials: Burke, Zola, Arendt, and the Politics of Lost Causes (Oxford UP, 2014), and she is currently at work on a new project on the politics of truth-telling. She can be reached at lida.maxwell@trincoll.edu
Garry Potter is a film maker and Associate Professor of Sociology at Wilfrid Laurier University. He has made two feature length documentary films: Whispers of Revolution and Dystopia: What is to be done? Both are available for free viewing on the website: www.WhispersofRevolution.org. He is also author of the book Dystopia as well as The Bet: Truth in Science, Literature and Everyday Knowledges and The Philosophy of Social Science: New Perspectives and numerous scholarly articles. Currently he is producing a series of educational films about classical sociological theory for Insight Media. Garry can be reached at gpotter@wlu.ca
Torrey Shanks is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Her research is in the area of early modern political thought, rhetoric and politics, feminist theory, and democratic theory. She has recently published a book, Authority Figures: Rhetoric and Experience in John Locke’s Political Thought (2014), with Penn State University Press. Her work on toleration and Locke’s feminine rhetorical figures has also appeared in Political Theory. She is currently working on the concept of possession in liberal, republican, and democratic traditions. Torrey can be reached at tshanks@albany.edu
Matt Waggoner is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Albertus Magnus College in New Haven. He is a graduate of the History of Consciousness Program at University of California Santa Cruz and served as Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Yale University. His articles have appeared in Telos, Constellations, New Formations, Critical Horizons, Culture and Religion, Journal of Cultural and Religious Theory, Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, and other places. Matt can be reached at mswaggoner@gmail.com
