Menaka Philips

Menaka Philips is a political theorist who works on a range of issues in historical and contemporary political thought. She is especially interested in the politics of interpretation; her book, The Liberalism Trap (forthcoming, Oxford University Press), examines how attention to liberalism shapes interpretive practices in political theory. 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.