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Dissertation: “Working Definitions: Gendered Labor and Arendtian Constitutive Citizenship”
My dissertation combines an historical consideration of the relationship between American citizenship, private property and waged labor with a theoretical engagement with Hannah Arendt and feminist theory. In terms of Arendtian scholarship, I advance a reading that sees constitutional maintenance, institution building, and work as far more central to her political theory than Action. I connect this reading to the historical work and contemporary analysis of the labor economy through qualitative research on actual workers, suggesting that the models of American citizenship, never stable, are significantly destabilized in advanced capitalism. Moving to a model hat recognizes constitutive work, and denies the separation of the public and the private in this arena, reorients discussions and practices of citizenship away from the national economy and towards shared projects.
about me
I am an advanced graduate student studying contemporary democratic theory with Stephen Elkin at the University of Maryland at College Park. I currently teach for the political science, women's studies and honors departments at Loyola University in Chicago. My dissertation examines the historical relationship of citizenship and waged labor in the United States, arguing that this relationship has become untenable. I then develop an alternative conception of citizenship with the help of Hannah Arendt and feminist theory.
Research interest
Work, Food Politics, Public Spheres, Constitutional & Public Law, Human Rights, Gender, Contemporary Democratic Theory, and Citizenship.
