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- Political Theory
Education
- B.A., University of British Columbia
- M.A., University of British Columbia
- Ph.D., Northwestern University
Menaka Philips
Assistant Professor
Biography
Menaka Philips is a political theorist who works on a range of issues in historical and contemporary political thought. Her work has been published in outlets like the European Journal of Political Theory, Signs: Journal for Women in Culture and Society, the American Political Science Review, and the Washington Post. Particularly interested in the politics of interpretation, her first book, The Liberalism Trap (Oxford University Press, 2023), examines how attention to liberalism shapes interpretive practices in political theory.