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Romand Coles, Associate Professor, Political Science and Germanic Languages and Literature and Director of Graduate Studies, Political Science

Contact Info:

Office Location:	407 Perkins Lib
Office Phone:	+1 919 660 4310
Email Address:

Education:

Ph.D.	University of Massachusetts	1988
Masters	Western Washington University	1982
Bachelor of Science	Huxley College of Environmental Studies, Western Washington University	1981

Specialties:

Political Theory

Research Interests:

Associate Professor of Political Science, and Director of Graduate Studies. He teaches political philosophy and specializes in continental political philosophy, critical theory, existential phenomenology, post-modernism, post-colonialism, Marxist thought, democratic theory, liberalism, and questions concerning multiculturalism. He is the author of Self/Power/Other: Political Theory and Dialogical Ethics, which examines the thought of Augustine, Foucault and Merleau-Ponty, and Rethinking Generosity: Critical Theory and the Politics of Caritas, which explores the work of Kant, Adorno, Habermas and others. He has published essays in Political Theory, Polity, Theory Culture and Society, Modern Theology, American Political Science Review, Political Economy of the Good Society, Nepantla and edited volumes. He is currently finishing a book on civil society, social movements, democratic ethics and politics among diverse communities and traditions. He is co-convenor, with Walter Mignolo, of the interdisciplinary group, "Dialogical Ethics and Critical Cosmopolitanism."

Keywords:

Political Science • Continental Political Philosophy • Critcal Theory • Phenomenology • Marxism • Liberalism • Multiculturalism • Postmodernism • Postcolonialism

Curriculum Vitae

Current Ph.D. Students  

• Laura K. Grattan  
• Tania Roy  
• Craig Borowiak  
• Roger Cooper  
• Matthew Feeney  
• Johnny Goldfinger  
• Alisa Kessel  
• Ari Kohen  
• Phillip Brendese  

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. R. Coles, "The Concept of Progress and Devolutions of Political Economy", Political Economy of the Good Society (Accepted, 2007)
2. R. Coles, “Hunger (of Mind/of Belly), Ethics, and the University”, in Ethics and Higher Education, edited by Peter Euben and Elizabeth Kiss (Accepted, 2007), Duke University Press (forthcoming.)
3. R. Coles, "Of Tensions and Tricksters: Grassroots Democracy Between Theory and Practice", Perspectives on Politics, vol. 4 no. 3 (September, 2006), pp. 529-546
4. R. Coles, The Wild Patience of Radical Democracy, in Radical Democracy Between Abundance and Lack (December, 2005), Manchester University Press
5. R. Coles, Beyond Gated Politics: Reflections for the Possibility of Democracy (August, 2005), University of Minnesota Press