Background and Education

Before coming to the Hopkins-Nanjing Center in 2008, was a social studies lecturer at Harvard University; served as a faculty adviser for the Harvard Globalization Project and was a visiting scholar at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; teaching interests center around global cultural issues, including liberalism and anti-liberalism, classics of political and social theory, world political thought, modernity and its critics, rural politics and alternative development; currently working on a book about encounters among civilizations and an alternative approach to cosmopolitanism that will examine pre-modern encounters between civilizations to generate lessons for a current-day alternative, non-liberal kind of globalization; Ph.D., politics, Princeton University