- Barbara Arneil
- Anna Jurkevics
- Sam LaSelva
- Mark Warren
- Afsoun Afsahi
- Bruce Baum
Key Publications:
- Domestic Colonies: The Turn Inward to Colony
- John Locke and America: The Defence of English Colonization
- 'Disability, Self Image and Modern Political Theory', Political Theory, 2009.
Current projects: Jeremy Bentham, Pauperism, Colonialism and Imperialism
See Barbara Arneil's full profile here.
Key Publications:
- “Hannah Arendt reads Carl Schmitt’s The Nomos of the Earth: a dialogue on law and geopolitics from the margins,” European Journal of Political Theory, 2017.
- “Hannah Arendt liest Carl Schmitts Der Nomos der Erde: Ein Dialog über Gesetz und Geopolitik anhand ihrer Marginalien,” HannahArendt.net Zeitschrift für politisches Denken, 2016.
- “Hannah Arendt reads Carl Schmitt’s The Nomos of the Earth: a dialogue on law and geopolitics from the margins,” European Journal of Political Theory, 2017.
Current courses: Topics in Political Theory: Contested Territory
Current research projects: “Westphalia and the Hidden Tradition of Contested Territory,” (book chapter and working paper).
See Anna Jurkevics's full profile here
Key Publications:
- "Toleration without Hate Speech: The Keegstra Decision, American Free Speech, and Locke's Letter," Canadian Journal of Political Science, 2015
- "Selling Oneself Into Slavery: Mill and Paternalism," Political Studies, 1987
See Samuel LaSelva's full profile here
Key Publications:
- Nietzsche and Political Thought, 1988.
- “Max Weber’s Liberalism for a Nietzschean World.” American Political Science Review, 1988.
- “Liberal Constitutionalism as Ideology: Marx and Habermas.” Political Theory, 1989.
See Mark Warren's full profile here
Key Publications:
“Kantian democracy: interdependence, legitimacy, and progress.” Telos, 2019.
See Afsoun Afsahi's full profile here
Key Publications:
- Rereading Power and Freedom in J.S. Mill
- Editor: Isaiah Berlin and the Politics of Freedom: ‘Two Concepts of Liberty’ 50 years Later
See Bruce Baum's full profile here
Research News
In the Media, Spotlight, Student
PhD Graduate Martina Zago on her decision to pursue graduate studies at UBC
November 21, 2022

Announcement, Job Opportunities
Sessional Call for Applicants (2022W2 and 2023S)
October 18, 2022

Achievement, Faculty
Professor Barbara Arniel elected to Royal Society of Canada
September 7, 2022
