Faculty

Degrees Held

B.A. Vassar College

M.A. and Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, Political Science

Recent Publications

Article (in process). “Contrasting Intellectual Legacies: Reflections on Hannah Arendt and Frieda Wunderlich” 

Invited contributor with co-authors. Special issue of "Berliner Journal für Soziologie“ https://www.springer.com/journal/11609/aims-and-scope) on Berlin as an early metropolis for transnational social research with attention to women sociologists (for publication 2022)

Co-author, featured article. "Intellectual Foremothers" for online journal Public Seminar, April 2018 https://publicseminar.org/2018/04/intellectual-foremothers/

Co-author, journal article. "Frieda Wunderlich: Gender, Knowledge and Exile,” Social Research, Vol. 84, No. 4, Winter 2017-18  https://muse.jhu.edu/article/687045

Review Article. E. Kittay, E. Feder (eds.), The Subject of Care, in Contemporary Political Theory, 2004

Book Chapter. "Translating a Liberal Feminism: Rethinking Susan Okin's Critique of Culture and the Case for Universal Women's Rights," in Reconstructing Human Rights in an Age of Globalization, ed., Andrew Nathan et. al., M.E. Sharpe, 2003. Developed from July 1999 Columbia University NEH Seminar, “Cultural Difference and Values," with Professor Andrew Nathan, Political Science, Columbia University.

Book Chapter/Article. "Kant," in The Many Faces of Wisdom: Great Philosophers' Visions of Philosophy, ed., Philip Washburn, Prentice Hall, 2002

Book (reviewed in Perspectives on Politics and Ethics).  Regarding Equality: Rethinking Contemporary Theories of Citizenship, Freedom, and the Limits of Moral Pluralism, Lexington Books, 2002

Review. Drucilla Cornell, At the Heart­ of Freedom, in New Political Science, vol XXI, no. 2, 2000

Performances and Appearances

Panel Moderator and Faculty Advisor for Memory Studies Group and 2021 Memory Studies Conference sponsored by Transregional Center for Democratic Studies, The New School, April 2021

Roundtable coordinator/presenter. “Female/Feminist Legacies at The New School,” GSS Institute Symposium, The New School, February 18, 2021

Public lecture. “Recovering Lives and Reshaping Intellectual Histories” for The New School Memory Studies Group and Transregional Center for Democratic Studies, November 12, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MtXgUClh9o

Contributor. Multipart video series for public programming on The Women’s Legacy Project at The New School, celebrating historical accomplishments of female founders, faculty and alum. Launched 2019-2020. 

https://blogs.newschool.edu/news/2019/10/womens-legacy-at-the-new-school-a-celebration/

https://www.newschool.edu/about/history/womens-legacy-project/

Presenter. “Translating Social Insurance from Weimar to the US: Reflections on Frieda Wunderlich”  for panel on Refugee Economists at the New School for Social Research for the History of Economics Society, Columbia University. Summer 2019

Paper Presentation. “Who Cares and Who Counts? Justice, and Dependency Work,” National American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C. Fall 2005

Research Interests

American Politics, Political Theory, Public Law, Feminist Theory, Women's Intellectual History