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  • Education

    2022 PhD in Political Science (Interdisciplinary Emphasis: Global Studies), University of California Santa Barbara
    Dissertation Title: On the Uses and Abuses of History for Politics
    Committee: Kevin B. Anderson (Chair), Paige E. Digeser, William I. Robinson, George Lipsitz

    2018 Master of Arts in Political Science, University of California Santa Barbara

    2010 Master of Arts in Philosophy (Graduate Minor: French), Louisiana State University

    2008 Bachelor of Arts (Minors: English, History, and Socialist/Marxist Studies, Major: Philosophy), The University of Maine
    Honors Thesis: On the Metaphysical Subjectivism of Jorge Luis Borges
    Honors College (graduated with high honors)

  • Teaching Experience

    Visiting Lecturer (Political Science), Seattle University (2021 to 2022)

    Teaching Associate (Political Science), University of California Santa Barbara (Summer 2020)

    UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Graduate Teaching Fellow (2019 to 2020), “Foundations in the Humanities”: Prison Correspondence Program

    Teaching Assistant (Political Science, Sociology, and Black Studies), University of California Santa Barbara (2014 to 2020)

    Professor of Philosophy and Theory of Knowledge, Beijing Huijia IB International School (2012 to 2013)

    English Professor, Xingjian International College of Liberal Arts, Guangxi University (2011 to 2012)

    Adjunct Professor of Ethics and Sociology, Husson University (2010 to 2011)

    Teaching Assistant (Philosophy), Louisiana State University (2008 to 2010)

  • Research Appointments

    Visiting Fellowship for DFG Collaborative Research Centre SFB/TRR 138 “Dynamics of Security” at Philipps-Universität Marburg (2022 to 2023)
    Forms of Securitization from a Historical Perspective

    UCSB Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies Graduate Research Fellow (2020 to 2021)
    Structural Violence, Police/Prison Abolition, and Decoloniality Research Cluster

  • Publications

    Hegel’s Polizei Hegel-Jahrbuch (forthcoming)

    Stuart Hall The Encyclopedia of Critical Political Science (forthcoming)

    Gilles Deleuze The Encyclopedia of Critical Political Science (forthcoming)

    Bureaucrats with Guns: Or, How We Can Abolish the Police if We Just Stop Believing in Them
    Anthropological Notebooks (Vol. 27. No. 3. 2021. pg. 159-208)

    Ur-Fascism and Neo-Fascism
    Journal of International Relations, Peace Studies, and Development (Vol 5. No 1. 2019. pg. 1-33)

    Twilight of the Humans: Nietzsche, Dismal Politics, and the Coming Planetary Apocalypse
    The Agonist: A Nietzsche Circle Journal (Vol. 7. No. 2. 2019. pg. 7-27)

    Foucault: Critical Theory of the Police in a Neoliberal Age
    Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory (Vol. 61. No. 4. 2014. pg. 5-29)

    On Honesty and Deceit: An Interpretation of Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition
    Philosophy Study (Vol. 2, No. 5, 2012. pg. 301-313)

    Viral Politics – Jacques Derrida’s reading of Auto-immunity and the Politics of Carl Schmitt
    Lambert Academic Publishing (2010)

    The End of Art or the Origin of New Art? A Heideggerian Historization of the New York City Graffiti
    Movement
    Dialectic: University of New Hampshire’s Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy (Vol. 8, 2007)

  • Honors

    UCSB Graduate Division Dissertation Fellowship (Fall 2020)

    UCSB Political Science Department Dissertation Research Grant (Summer 2020)

    Graduate Research Assistant for Dr. Benjamin J. Cohen (2019-2020)

    Princeton University U.S. China Coalition: 2019 Global Governance Forum

    Confucius Institute Graduate Student Travel Grant (Spring 2019)

    Manzer-Wesson Award 2018
    Best peer-reviewed publication: UCSB Political Science Department
    Paper: Twilight of the Humans: Nietzsche, Dismal Politics, and the Coming Planetary Apocalypse

    UCSB Doctoral Scholar Fellowship 2016-2017

    UCSB Doctoral Scholar Fellowship 2013-2014

    Collegium Phaenomenologicum: The Subject of Politics (Cittá di Castello, July 2009)

    Levinson Award 2008
    Best philosophy paper: Univ. of Maine Philosophy Department

    The Charles Schwartz Virtue Award 2008
    Bringing Philosophy to the Community: Univ. of Maine Philosophy Department

    11th Annual Essay Contest on Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged
    Paper: Deconstruction and Marxism in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged.

    John M. Rezendes Ethics Contest 2007
    Paper: Sealing the Coffin: The Ethical Dilemma of Saddam Hussein’s Execution.

  • Working Papers

    Theses on the History of Police (monograph)

    Magic, Monsters, and Machines: Conceptual Personae in Marx’s Gothic Nightmare

    Derrida’s Auto-immunité: The Organized Hypocrisy of Authority

    Why is There Now Socialism in the United States?

    Global Police State is a Three-Word Oxymoron

    A Thousand Capitalisms: A Post-structuralist Theory of the International Monetary System

  • Courses Taught

    Police and Politics

    Global Policing

    Introduction to Political Theory

    Modern Political Theory

    Contemporary Political Theory

    Introduction to Philosophy

    Theory of Knowledge

    Ethics

    Introduction to Sociology

  • Courses Assisted

    Courses Assisted:

    Sociology of Deviance

    Sociology of Education

    Political Sociology

    The Civil Rights Movement

    Introduction to Political Philosophy

    American Government and Politics

    Introduction to International Relations

    The American Presidency

    History of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy

    Philosophy in Literature

    Contemporary French Philosophy

    Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz

  • Conference Presentations

    Historical Materialism (London, Nov. 2022)
    Theses on the History of Police

    American Studies Association (New Orleans, Nov. 2022)
    Rethinking Professionalism: Labor and (Academic) Freedom in the University

    Mobilization: Protest and Resistance in Contemporary Democracies (San Diego State Univ., June 2022)
    Bureaucrats with Guns: Or, How We Can Abolish the Police if We Just Stop Believing in Them

    Western Political Science Association (Portland, Feb. 2022)
    Bureaucrats with Guns: Or, How We Can Abolish the Police if We Just Stop Believing in Them

    Association for Political Theory (Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, Nov. 2021)
    “Police Should Have Oversight Over Everything”: Why the Historical Understanding of Police in
    Indispensable for the Contemporary Police Abolition Movement

    The Geneva Graduate Conference in Political Philosophy (February 2021)
    “Police Should Have Oversight Over Everything”: Why the Historical Understanding of Police in
    Indispensable for the Contemporary Police Abolition Movement

    Abolition Convergence: Imagining Decolonizing and Abolitionist Futures (Toronto, postponed)
    Accompaniment with/in the Undercommons: Practicing Abolitionist Pedagogy

    Critical Genealogies Workshop (Univ. of Richmond, postponed)
    7,000 B.C.: Fragments of a Policing Anthropology

    33rd International Hegel Congress: Hegel and Freedom (Univ. of Warsaw, June 2021)
    Hegel’s Polizei

    State Violence Research Network: Riot, Rebellion, Resistance, Repression (Manchester, April 2020)
    Theses on the History of Police

    International Herbert Marcuse Society Conference: Critical Theory in Dark Times (Univ. of California
    Santa Barbara, Oct. 2019)
    Even Fascists Have Feelings: Sublimated Repression in the Age of Trump

    Philosophy, Politics, & Anthropology Conference (Univ. of Amsterdam, May 2019)
    7,000 B.C.: Fragments of a Policing Anthropology

    Western Political Science Association (San Diego, April 2019)
    Twilight of the Humans: Nietzsche and the Horizons of Apocalyptic Politics

    International Studies Association (Toronto, March 2019)
    American Empire, Global Capitalism, and the Never-Ending Crisis

    Association for Political Theory (Ohio State Univ., Oct. 2016)
    Hegel’s Polizei: Between Security and Welfare

    Nihilism.Hope (Univ. of Victoria, April 2016)
    Twilight of the Humans: Nietzsche and the Horizons of Apocalyptic Politics

    21st Century EcoSocialism: Practicing System Change, Making Connections, Building a Movement
    (Univ. of California Santa Barbara, Oct. 2015)
    The Bernie Sanders Campaign: What Do EcoSocialists, Greens, and Other Radicals Think?

    EcoMaterialisms: Organizing Life & Matter (Univ. of California Irvine, May 2015)
    A Manifesto of Resistance: There is No Alternative but the Im-possibility of An-other World

    Western Political Science Association (Las Vegas, April 2015)
    Hegel’s Polizei: Between Security and Welfare

    1st International Deleuze Studies in Asia Conference (Tamkang Univ., May 2013)
    Deleuze, Weiqi, and the Politics of Game Theory

    2012 Kaifeng International Deleuze Conference (Henan Univ., May 2012)
    On Honesty and Deceit: An Interpretation of Difference and Repetition

    9th Biennial Meeting Radical Philosophy Association (Univ. of Oregon, Nov. 2011)
    Bio-power, Population Control, and Political Economy

    43rd Meeting North Texas Philosophical Association (Univ. of North Texas, March 2010)
    Badiou and Ranciére: The State of the Police Situation

    Biennial Brennan Graduate Student Conference in Philosophy: Justice, Foundations and Crisis
    (Loyola Univ. Chicago, March 2010)
    Foucault: Politics of the Police

    Collegium Phaenomelogicum: Questioning the Political (Cittá di Castello, July 2009)
    From the Grain Police to the Privatization of Security Apparatuses: Bio-Power and Police.

    Emory Graduate Philosophy Conference: Philosophy, Politics, and the Ethics of Resistance (Emory
    Univ., April 2009)
    Threats of/to Democracy: Schmitt, Benjamin, and Derrida.

    Society for Student Philosophers (Univ. of Texas Pan-American, March 2009)
    Empire-Building: Territory and Population in the Work of Niccolò Machiavelli.

    3rd New England Philosophy Conference (Providence College, April 2007)
    The End of Art or the Origin of New Art? A Heideggerian Historization of the New York City Graffiti
    Movement.

    Portland Philosophy Conference (Univ. of Southern Maine, March 2006)
    Time and Space in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit.

  • Experience And Service

    Structural Violence, Prison/Police Abolition, and Decoloniality: Global Carcerality Bibliography

    2014-2020 Lead Organizer of UCSB Political Science Graduate Speaker Series

    UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Conference: Outlaw(ed) Intellectuals – Critiquing
    Structures of Power from Within (January 2019)

    2015-2016 Board of Directors for the Santa Barbara Student Housing Cooperative

    2013-2020 Interfaith Coordinator for the Santa Barbara Student Housing Cooperative

    2015-2016 Undergraduate Advisor for the UCSB Political Science Department

    Center for Jewish Nonviolence: Justice, Justice You Shall Pursue (Summer 2017)

    8th Annual Critical Race Studies Symposium: Race and Resistance – Against Police Violence (UCLA
    School of Law, October 2015)

    Organizer of Louisiana State Univ. 2nd Annual Philosophy Conference (Feb. 2010)

    Organizer of Louisiana State Univ. 1st Annual Philosophy Conference (April 2009)

    New York Univ. 4th Annual Conference in Modern Philosophy: Aesthetics Judgment (Nov. 2007)

    Reviewer for Surveillance & Society and History of the Human Sciences

    Member of UCSB Underground Scholars, UCSB Social Movements Working Group, UCSB Politics
    of Identity Working Group, UCSB Center on Work, Labor, and Political Economy, American Political
    Science Association, Association for Political Thought, International Studies Association, American
    Studies Association, and Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy.

  • Media Appearances

    Orfalea Center Podcast: Global Policing (forthcoming)

    Against the Grain Radio: “Graeber, Policing, and Abolitionism” (2022)

    The Spectator: “Hello Harrell, So Long Sawant?” (2021)

    Orfalea Center Webinar: Ben Brucato on “White Citizenship, Black Slavery, and Police: U.S.
    America’s Peculiar Institution” (2021)

    Orfalea Center: Interview with the MENA Prison Forum (2021)

    Daily Nexus: “I.V. CSD 2021-21 Budget Projects Increase in Revenue Despite Coronavirus” (2020)

    The Unveiled Truth documentary (2020)

    Charles Moscowitz and Andrew Johnson discuss defunding the police (June 2020)

    University of Virginia podcast: Police, Power, and Resistance (April 2020)

    The International Humanist-Marxist Organization: University of California Graduate Students Strike
    Against Unsustainable Housing Costs (March 2020)

    The Young Turks: Inside the Israeli Palestinian Crisis (May 2017)

  • Talks Organized

    Alphonso Lingis: “The New Fear of One Another” (March 2021)

    Wendy Trevino: “Anything But Violence” (Jan. 2021)

    John Woolley: “Requiem for the Trump Presidency” (Jan. 2021)

    Ben Brucato: “White Citizenship, Black Slavery, and Police – U.S. America’s Peculiar Institution”
    (Nov. 2020)

    Brendan Joyce and Kevin Latimer: “Poetry and Revolutionary Politics” (Nov. 2020)

    Stephanie Kaylor: “Poetry and the History of International Working Women’s Day” (March 2020)

    Michael Montenegro: “Santa Barbara History from a Chicano Perspective” (Feb. 2020)

    Dylan Rodriguez: “Naming State Violence – ‘Mass Incarceration,’ ‘Police Brutality,’ and the
    Insufficiency of Current Keywords” (Feb. 2018)

    James Ferguson: “Presence and Social Obligation: An Essay on the Share” (Feb. 2018)

    Elizabeth Pérez: “Religion in the Kitchen – Cooking, Talking, and the Making of the Black Atlantic
    Tradition” (Feb. 2018)

    Beautiful Trouble: “Direct Action and Civil Disobedience Training” (March 2017)

    Dick Flacks: “Who Burned the Bank? History of Radical Student Activism at UCSB” (March 2017)

    Vasanth Vijajji Maharaj “A Guide to Achieve Peace” (May 2016)

    Stan Klein: “Physicalism, Pluralism, and Agnosticism in Contemporary Science” (April 2016)

    Amy Lerman: “New Frontiers in Policy Feedback Research” (April 2016)

    Ahmad Ahmad “Good Times and Bad Times for Interfaith Dialogue” (Feb. 2016)

    Ashley Bohrer “The Capitalist Roots of Violence Against Women” (May 2015)

    John Foran “Climate Justice and How *You* Can Get Involved in the Biggest Political Adventure of
    Your Life!” (May 2015)

    Dick Flacks: “Isla Vista – Then And Now” (May 2015)

    Ahmed Mousa: “Apocalyptic Jihad” (April 2015)

    Maurizia Boscagli: “Slow Modernity” (April 2015)

    Christopher Newfield: “UCSB’s Town Problem – Where Do We Go From Here?” (March 2015)

    Cedric Robinson: “Race, Class, and Ferguson” (Feb. 2015)

    Edward Casey: “Going to the Limit – Working with Edges” (Feb. 2015)

    Elisabeth Weber: “The Hooded Man from Abu Ghraib – Echoes of A Christian Symbol” (Jan. 2015)

    George Lipsitz: “Political Evil and Politicized Love” (Jan. 2015)

    Harold Marcuse: “First They Came for the Communists, But What About the Catholics?” (May 2014)

    Brian Walker: “Does Environmental Counterculture Successfully Fuse Libertarianism and Social
    Responsibility?” (May 2014)

    Joseph Navarro: “On New Atheism” (May 2014)

    Beth Digeser: “Platonism, Christianity and Universalism” (May 2014)

    Andrew Dilts “To Look But Not See – Felon Voting Rights, Critical Prison Theory, and the Politics of
    Inclusion” (April 2014)

    Kip Fulbeck: “The Hapa Project and Traditional Japanese Tattooing” (April 2014)

    Carly Thomsen: “Queering the Rural – Beyond Doin’ It in Haystacks” (April 2014)

    Shyam Sriram: “From Hinduism to Atheism to Judaism to Christianity to Islam” (March 2014)

    Jovian Radheshwar: “Sufism and Existentialism” (March 2014)

    Kevin Anderson: “Arab Uprisings as a Part of Global Upheavals” (Feb. 2014)

    Edward Song: “The Jungle or the Garden?” (Jan. 2014)

    José Cabezón: “Buddhist Enlightenment for College Kids” (Dec. 2014)

    Egidio Garay: “Of Course, Jesus was White!” (Nov. 2013)

    Skylar Covich: “Religion and Political Activism in the United States” (Oct. 2014)

    Edward Casey: “A Matter of Edge – Border vs. Boundary at La Frontera” (Feb. 2010)

    David Wood: “Can Art Save the World?” (Feb. 2010)

    Todd May: “Thinking the Break – The Return of a Politics of Resistance” (April 2009)

    Edward Casey: “Edges and the In-Between” (March 2008)

    John Sallis: “Invisibility of Painting” (Feb. 2008)

  • Foreign Languages

    Mandarin Chinese: Moderate
    French: Moderate
    German: Moderate

  • References

    Kevin B. Anderson (Professor of Sociology)
    University of California Santa Barbara
    805-893-3118, kanderson@soc.ucsb.edu

    Paige E. Digeser (Professor of Political Science)
    University of California Santa Barbara
    805-893-3395, digeser@polsci.ucsb.edu

    Benjamin J. Cohen (Professor of Political Science)
    University of California Santa Barbara
    805-893-8763, bjcohen@polsci.ucsb.edu

    William I. Robinson (Professor of Sociology)
    University of California Santa Barbara
    805-893-5607, wirobins@soc.ucsb.edu

    George Lipsitz (Professor of Black Studies)
    University of California Santa Barbara
    805-893-4735, glipsitz@blackstudies.ucsb.edu

    François Raffoul (Professor of Philosophy)
    Louisiana State University
    225-578-2278, fraffo1@lsu.edu

    John Protevi (Professor of Philosophy)
    Louisiana State University
    225-578-6664, protevi@lsu.edu

    Kirsten Jacobson (Professor of Philosophy)
    University of Maine
    207-581-3866, Kirsten.jacobson@maine.edu