Status
Graduated
Email Address
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Major
Political Theory
Minor
Canadian Government
Supervisor(s)
Black, Zachariah
Dissertation:
Minding the Mundane: Rabelais, Montaigne, and Hobbes on the Ordinariness of Politics
Biography
Zak Black is a PhD candidate in Political Theory. His doctoral work explores sixteenth century French political thought as a resource for challenging more recent deliberative and republican accounts of liberal democracy in favour of a vision of liberal politics that centres around the pleasures of mundane life.
Publications
“Wheat or Tare?: Roger Williams in the History of Political Thought,” review of Teresa Bejan, Mere Civility, in Review of Politics 80, no. 3 (2018): 517-20.
Research Interests
Early modern political thought
Political theory and literature
Political theology and secularization
Previous Degrees
M.A. University of Toronto (Political Science)
B.A. Carleton University (Bachelor of Humanities)
Teaching Experience
Course Instructor: POL200Y1Y (Summer 2018)