Rachel Wagner

Rachel is a Ph.D. candidate studying the psychic consequences of the human body in the thought of Thucydides, Thomas Hobbes, and Sigmund Freud. Over the past four years, she has been a teaching assistant across UofT’s three campuses, helped to organize the Political Theory Research Workshop, and served as the Political Theory Subfield Student Representative. In the summer of 2024, she will co-teach POL402: ‘What’s Love Got To Do With It? Eros and Citizenship.’

Originally from Delaware, Rachel completed her undergraduate education at Christopher Newport University, where she majored in American Studies and Interdisciplinary Studies, with minors in Greek Studies and Leadership Studies. She was also a participant in the President’s Leadership Program and a junior fellow at CNU’s Center for American Studies.