Andrew Dilts is Associate Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Loyola Marymount University.
Andrew Dilts (pronouns: he/him or they/them) is a political theorist who works in the traditions of critical theory and the history of political thought, focusing primarily on the relationships between race, sexuality, political membership, sovereignty, and punishment in the United States.
Prof. Dilts studied economics at Indiana University and the London School of Economics before earning a doctorate in political science at the University of Chicago. Prior to joining the faculty at Loyola Marymount in 2011, Dilts was a Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts at the University of Chicago, teaching exclusively in the College’s “Common Core” curriculum as Collegiate Assistant Professor of Social Sciences. During the 2016-2017 academic year, Dilts was in residence as a Member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. In the Spring 2018, Dilts was Visiting Senior Fellow in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Dilts is the author of Punishment and Inclusion: Race, Membership, and the Limits of American Liberalism (Fordham University Press, 2014) which gives a theoretical and historical account of felon/criminal disenfranchisement as it has been practiced in the United States, drawing widely on early modern political theory, post-structuralist french thought, queer theory, disability theory, and critical race theory. Dilts is also co-editor (with Perry Zurn of American University of Active Intolerance: Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition (Palgrave, 2016).
Currently, Dilts is at work on two book-length projects, both taking up neoliberal theories of subjectivity, race, gender, and sexuality that emerge as part of “human capital” theory developed by “Chicago-School” economists and critiqued by Michel Foucault. The projects turn to radical queer, trans*, and women-of-color feminist thought and activism to acknowledge an existing critical response to the hegemonic status of this depoliticizing discourse.
Dilts has also co-edited (with Natalie Cisneros of Seattle University) a special project for Radical Philosophy Review called “Political Theory and Philosophy in a Time of Mass Incarceration,” multiple issues of The Carceral Notebooks (with Bernard Harcourt and Perry Zurn), and has published articles in Political Theory, Foucault Studies, New Political Science, PhiloSOPHIA, and The Carceral Notebooks.
Dilts is also a founding member of Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics and the Prison and Theory Working Group.
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