Chris A. Chambers

Chris A. Chambers is an Assistant Professor of Political Science. His research and teaching interests span the history of political thought and political economy; twentieth-century Continental philosophy (especially existentialism, phenomenology, and critical theory); Black social and political thought; and representations of philosophy and politics in literature and film. His book project examines how claims about the degrading and de-humanizing effects of poverty have paradoxically animated while limiting conservative, liberal, and radical perspectives on (regulating/uplifting/empowering) the poor. His writings have been published or are forthcoming in venues such as Polity, Global Intellectual History, and Tocqueville21.