Past 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
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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
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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