Kyong-Min Son
Kyong-Min Son
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Political Theory
Office: 457 Smith Hall
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Biography
Kyong-Min Son, Ph.D. (Cornell University, 2012) joined the Department in 2012. He specializes in democratic theory and twentieth-century political thought. In his work, Prof. Son examines how ideas about democracy historically evolve in response to changing political, socioeconomic and technological conditions, and engages in contemporary debates in light of his findings. Prof. Son's interdisciplinary approach connects political theory with other scholarly subfields such as social theory, political economy and the philosophy and history of social science. His book, The Eclipse of the Demos: The Cold War and the Crisis of Democracy before Neoliberalism (University Press of Kansas, 2020) won the American Political Science Association's Foundations of Political Theory First Book Award. Prof. Son is currently writing a book on financialization in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries and its implications for democratic citizenship.
