The University of Pennsylvania's Political Theory Workshop Presents: Jennie Ikuta, University of Missouri

"White Public Sentiment and Black Political Agency: Wells on Knowledge and Political Action" 

Jennie Ikuta is Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Truman School of Government & Public Affairs and the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy. Her research focuses on the role of moral psychology in politics, especially in 19th- and 20th-century political thought.  She is the author of  Contesting Conformity: Democracy and the Paradox of Political Belonging (Oxford University Press, 2020) and has published articles in journals including Constellations and Philosophy & Social Action. 

 Tom Pattiz will serve as discussant.