An account of the meeting at of the Foundations of Political Theory section of American Political Science Association (APSA) and its discussion of a resolution to endorse the academic boycott of Israel.
Elisabeth Anker, Kevin Bruyneel, Anne Norton, William Clare Roberts, and C. Heike Schotten
Elisabeth Anker is an Associate Professor of American Studies at George Washington University, where she researches contemporary political thought and American political culture. She is the author of Orgies of Feeling: Melodrama and the Politics of Freedom (Duke, 2014), which was a finalist for the Lora Romero Prize for the Best First Book in American Studies. She is currently finishing two books: Ugly Freedoms and The Wrath of Sovereignty. She serves on editorial boards for American Political Science Review, Contemporary Political Theory, Theory & Event, and Politics and Gender, and is a frequent contributor on international television and radio news.
Kevin Bruyneel is Professor of Politics at Babson College in Massachusetts. He is the author of The Third Space of Sovereignty: The Postcolonial Politics of U.S.-Indigenous Relations, and has a forthcoming book Settler Memory: The Disavowal of Indigeneity in the Political Life of Race in the United States, to be published in the Critical Indigeneities Series at University of North Carolina Press. He is also a member of the collective of Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics.
Anne Norton is the author of On the Muslim Question; 95 Theses on Politics, Culture and Method; Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire; Bloodrites of the Poststructuralists; Republic of Signs; Reflections on Political Identity; and Alternative Americas: A Reading of Antebellum Political Culture. She is part of the Bridge Initiative against Islamophobia and founding co-editor of Theory & Event. She was educated at the University of Chicago and is Stacey and Henry Jackson President’s Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. She has also taught at the University of Chicago, the University of Notre Dame, Princeton University and the University of Texas, and has held fellowships at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton. She has working projects on radical democracy, the problem of property, racial inequality, and the remains of empire.
William Clare Roberts is Associate Professor of Political Science at McGill University. He is the author of Marx's Inferno: The Political Theory of Capital (Princeton University Press, 2017), winner of the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize.
C. Heike Schotten is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Boston and a member of the organizing collective of the US Campaign for Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USABI). She is the author, most recently, of Queer Terror: Life, Death, and Desire in the Settler Colony (Columbia UP, 2018).
