Education

B.A. Wesleyan University (1983)
Ph.D. University of California, Santa Cruz, History of Consciousness (1991)

Areas of Expertise

Professor Reinhardt’s teaching interests range from ancient to contemporary political theory, as well as problems of democracy, public space, cultural analysis, and visual politics. His current research interests are in the ethics and politics of images, the place of visuality within the history of political thought (ancient and modern), and the opportunities for contemporary political theory and political science to engage more fully with the visual domain; a related strand of work concerns the relations between politics and aesthetics.

Scholarship/Creative Work

Book in Progress:  

Visual Politics:  Theories and Spectacles (Working Title)

Forthcoming:  

Romand Coles, Mark Reinhardt, George Shulman, eds. Radical Future Pasts:  Untimely Essays in Political Theory, University of Kentucky Press (under contract and forthcoming 2013/2014)

Published Books:

Who Speaks for Margaret Garner?, University of Minnesota Press (2010)

Beautiful Suffering: Photography and the Traffic in Pain, University of Chicago Press (2007), Reinhardt, Edwards, Duganne, eds.

Kara Walker: Narratives of a Negress, MIT University Press (2003), Berry, English, Patterson, and Reinhardt, eds.

The Art of Being Free: Taking Liberties with Tocqueville, Marx, and Arendt, Cornell University Press (1997).

Committees

American Studies Program (2010-2013)

Recent Syllabi

PSCI 430 (Fall 2011)
PSCI 231 (Spring 2011)
PSCI 332 (Spring 2011)
PSCI 203 (Fall 2010)
PSCI 430 (Fall 2010)
AMST 302 / PSCI 335 (Fall 2009)

Program Affiliation:

American Studies