Patchen Markell

Patchen Markell is an associate professor of political science at the University of Chicago. He received a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University in 1999 and a B.A. in Political Science and Philosophy from University of California, Berkeley in 1992.

His research interests range include a range of issues in contemporary social and political theory. Recently he has written and taught on subjects such as action and responsibility, agency, theories of democracy, gender and sexuality, responsibility, and the role of affect in politic, as well as figures such as Hegel, Marx, Hannah Arendt, Habermas, Aristotle. In 2003, Princeton University Press published his "Bound by Recognition", an engagement of the politics of recognition and its involvement with ideas of justice. It has been awarded the Foundations of Political Theory First Book Award. He is currently working on book entitled "The Architecture of the "Human Condition", the first book-length study of Ardent's "The Human Condition".

Markell also serves as the co-director of the Political Theory Workshop, an Editorial Council member of Constellations, and a member of the Editorial Collective of Public Culture.

External links

* [http://home.uchicago.edu/~pmarkell/index2.html Personal page on University of Chicago]
* [http://political-science.uchicago.edu/faculty/markell.shtml Faculty profile on University of Chicago]