Courses


In 2025-2026, I will be teaching the following elective courses for postgraduate students at LSE.
GV4D7: Dilemmas of Equality. This is a course in contemporary political theory. It starts with the general question of why (or if) equality matters. It then introduces some of the major debates in the contemporary literature on equality. These debates include: the appropriate metric for making comparisons between persons; the difference between equality, priority, and sufficiency; and the relationship between equality and justice. Throughout the course, and particularly in the latter half, we consider concrete social problems and dilemmas faced by those who are committed to the ideal of equality.
GV4H3: Feminist Political Theory. This course covers some of the central debates in contemporary feminist political theory, with an emphasis on the legacy and usefulness of liberalism. Feminist political theory poses challenges to liberal conceptions of the individual and freedom over the body; the relative invisibility of the body, intimate relationships, and emotional life in mainstream political theory; and the tendency to presume a set of ideas on justice and equality are universally applicable. We consider the theoretical debates in relation to a number of contemporary political issues. These issues include: contracts of marriage, surrogacy, and sex work; beauty norms; pornography and efforts to shape patterns of sexual desire in an ‘egalitarian’ direction; and sex segregation in public spaces and cultural practices.
In addition, I will be co-teaching the compulsory module for MSc Political Theory students, Foundations of Political Theory.
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