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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. His most recent book, Beyond Gated Politics: Reflections for the Possibility of Democracy, came out in August of 2005 and addresses civil society, social movements, democratic ethics and politics among diverse communities and traditions. He has numerous published essays in Political Theory, Polity, Theory Culture and Society, Modern Theology, American Political Science Review, Perspectives on Politics, Political Economy of the Good Society, Nepantla and edited volumes.