Current Member
Matthew Shafer
Affiliation
Social Science
Field of Study
Political Theory
Home Institution
Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy, University of Pennsylvania
Website
Matthew Shafer's research examines the politics of language and the language of politics in contemporary technological capitalism. At IAS, he is completing a critical history of contemporary debates about how the term "violence" should be defined in political theory and deployed in political rhetoric.
Dates at IAS
Member
School of Social Science
– current
Degrees
Yale University
Ph.D.
2020
University of Cambridge
M.Phil.
2014
Appointments
Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy, University of Pennsylvania
2020–2021
Postdoctoral Fellow