Associate Professor206-518-0752jturner3@uw.eduPersonal Website CV (148.49 KB)Please contact via emailOffice Hours: By appt on zoom; Email for zoom linkFields of Interest African American American Political Development Constitutional Law Ethics Feminism and Feminist Theory Justice Law and Society Minority and Race Politics Political Theory Background and ExperienceSummaryJack Turner is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington. He specializes in American political thought, critical race theory, democratic theory, and liberalism and its critics. He is the author of Awakening to Race: Individualism and Social Consciousness in America (University of Chicago Press, 2012). With Melvin L. Rogers, he co-edited African American Political Thought: A Collected History (University of Chicago Press, 2020). His articles have appeared in a wide variety of journals, including Political Theory, Raritan, Modern Intellectual History, and Polity. His latest article, “Audre Lorde’s Anti-Imperial Consciousness,” is forthcoming in Political Theory. He currently sits on the editorial boards of Journal of Politics and American Political Thought, and has previously sat on the editorial boards of American Journal of Political Science, Political Research Quarterly, and Politics, Groups, and Identities. He is writing a new book titled Existential Democracy: Death and Politics in Walt Whitman. Research Publications, Articles Jack Turner. “Symposium on Thomas McCarthy’s Race, Empire, and the Idea of Human Development.” Symposia on Gender, Race, and Philosophy 8 (2012): http://sgrp.typepad.com/sgrp/winter-2012-symposium-mccarthy-2009.html. Jack Turner. 2011. “Self-Reliance and Complicity: Emerson’s Ethics of Citizenship” (Revised version of 2008 Raritan article), in A Political Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson, edited by Alan M. Levine and Daniel S. Malachuk Lexington. University Press of Kentucky. Jack Turner. “W. E. B. Du Bois as Political Philosopher: A Symposium on New Books by Gooding-Williams and Balfour.” Du Bois Review 8, no. 2 (2011): 377-416. Jack Turner. “John Locke, Christian Mission, and Colonial America.” Modern Intellectual History 8, no. 2 (2011): 267-297. Publications, Books Jack Turner. Awakening to Race: Individualism and Social Consciousness in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. Jack Turner (ed.). A Political Companion to Henry David Thoreau. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky. Publications, Book Chapters Jack Turner. “Shadows of Du Bois” and “W. E. B. Du Bois as Political Philosopher,” In Du Bois Review, edited by Jack Turner, 8, no. 2 (2011): 379-382. Jack Turner. “Whitman, Death, and Democracy,” In A Political Companion to Walt Whitman, edited by John Seery Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2011. Jack Turner. “Introduction: Thoreau as a Political Thinker,” In A Political Companion to Henry David Thoreau, edited by Jack Turner. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2009. Jack Turner. “Thoreau and John Brown.” (Revised version of 2005 Political Theory article), In A Political Companion to Henry David Thoreau, edited by Jack Turner. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2009. Publications, Reviews Jack Turner. “Critical Race Theory,” “Individualism,” and “Booker T. Washington,” In Encyclopedia of Political Science, edited by George Thomas Kurian Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2010. Research Advised: Graduate Dissertations Sean Kim Butorac. 2020. "States of Insurrection: Race, Resistance, and the Laws of Slavery" Emma Rodman. 2020. "The Idea of Equality in America" Lawrence Cushnie. 2014. "Dissent Through Destruction: American Political Activism and the Utilization of Property Disruption as Protest." Diss., U of Washington. Kirstine Taylor. "From Violence to Law-and-Order: The Making of Racial Innocence in Postwar America." Diss., U of Washington, 2014. Rachel Sanders. 2013. "The Color of Fat: Racial Biopolitics of Obesity." Diss., U of Washington. Heather Pool. 2011. "The Politics of Political Mourning." Diss., U of Washington. Teaching Summer 2021 Full-term POL S 312 A: Survey of American Political Thought Spring 2021 POL S 318 A: American Political Thought from the Colonial Era to the Civil War POL S 487 A: Political Science Honors Seminar Winter 2021 POL S 201 A: Introduction to Political Theory Autumn 2020 POL S 516 A: Special Topics In American Political Thought: Democracy as a Way of Life Spring 2020 POL S 319 A: American Political Thought from Reconstruction to the Present POL S 509 A: Political Theory Core Winter 2020 POL S 201 A: Introduction to Political Theory POL S 318 A: American Political Thought from the Colonial Era to the Civil War Autumn 2018 POL S 201 A: Introduction to Political Theory Spring 2018 POL S 201 A: Introduction to Political Theory - Course Website Winter 2018 POL S 201 A: Introduction To Political Theory - Course Website POL S 514 A: Selected Topics In Political Theory: Critical Race Studies - Course Website Spring 2017 POL S 318 A: American Political Thought I - Course Website Winter 2017 POL S 201 A: Introduction To Political Theory - Course Website POL S 401 A: Advanced Seminar In Political Theory POL S 513 A: Issues In Feminist Theory Autumn 2016 POL S 312 A: Survey Of American Political Thought News & Events Related News Faculty Perspectives on the George Floyd Protests Jun 4, 2020 Race and Capitalism Receive Year-Long Investigation through $175,000 Sawyer Seminar Grant Jan 18, 2017 Affiliated Centers: WISER is now WISIR Nov 18, 2015 Jack Turner published article in Politics, Groups, and Identities, Vol 3, Issue 3, 2015 Oct 6, 2015 Political Theory at the University of Washington May 14, 2014 2013 Political Science News Summary Dec 31, 2013 2012 Political Science News Summary Dec 31, 2012 2011 Political Science News Summary Dec 31, 2011 Share: Print PDF