Assistant Professor in Political Science at University of Tulsa
About
Jennie Ikuta is an assistant professor in political science at the University of Missouri, Columbia. She received her PhD in political theory from Brown University (2014) and her BA in political science from the University of Chicago (2007). She works in the history of political thought (especially 19th century thought) and is broadly interested in the relationship between politics and ethics, or between our collective commitments and our conceptions of the life well-lived.
Current Work:
Dr. Ikuta's current book project, Democracy and the Quest for Human Flourishing: A Study of Mill and Nietzsche, employs the political and philosophical thought of John Stuart Mill and Friedrich Nietzsche as theoretical lenses through which to think about the relationship between our collective commitment to democracy and our conceptions of the life well-lived. She is also writing articles on the prospects of individuality within groups in the thought of George Kateb, and the possibilities and limits of resistance to mass society in the thought of Tocqueville and Foucault.
Research Area(s):
- Political Science
- Political Theory
