Biography
Dr. Keally McBride joined the Politics department in Fall 2007. She received her graduate degrees at University of California at Berkeley with a focus in political theory, and is happy to be back in the Bay Area after teaching at Cornell University, Tulane, Temple, and the University of Pennsylvania. She has published three books, Collective Dreams: Political Imagination and Community, Punishment and Political Order, and with Margaret Kohn, Political Theories of Decolonization: Postcolonialism and the Problem of Foundations. In summer 2016, Oxford University Press will publish Mr. Mothercountry: Colonialism and the Rule of Law.
Her current research is focused on the sharing and solidarity economies in the Bay Area, and understanding how different economic practices are evolving locally.
- Appointments
- Co-Director, Center for Teaching Excellence
- Education
- Graduate degrees (focus in Political Theory), University of California, Berkeley
- Experience
- Teacher, Cornell University
- Teacher, Tulane University
- Teacher, Temple University
- Teacher, University of Pennsylvania
- Expertise
- Political Theory
- Feminist Politics and Theory
- Citizenship and Globalization
- American Political Thought
- Theories of Justice
- Comparative Western European Politics
- Research
- Political theories of decolonization
- Investigating how ideas of liberation can change our views on global politics and also our understanding of power and social change
- Understanding of power and social change
- Selected Publications
Collective Dreams: Political Imagination and Community
Punishment and Political Order