Assistant Professor
Phone: 310-338-5165
Email: adilts@lmu.edu
Office: University Hall 4203
Fall 2011 Office Hours
MWF 11:00a-12:30p
Andrew Dilts is a political theorist whose work focuses broadly on the history of political thought, and in particular, the discursive relationships between political membership, subjectivity, sovereignty, and punishment. He is especially interested in the connections between penal policy and "identity" in the contemporary United States, and in California in particular.
Born and raised in the midwest, Andrew studied economics at Indiana University and the London School of Economics before earning his doctorate in political science at the University of Chicago. Before joining the faculty at Loyola Marymount, he was a Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts at the University of Chicago, where he taught exclusively in the College's "Common Core" curriculum as a Collegiate Assistant Professor of Social Sciences.
Andrew has published in The Carceral Notebooks, has forthcoming articles in Political Theory, Foucault Studies, and Social Text. He is currently at work on two book projects. The first gives a theoretical account of felon disenfranchisement as it has been practiced in the United States, drawing widely on early modern political theory, post-structuralist french thought, queer theory, disability theory, and critical legal studies. The second project is a study of Michel Foucault's thought in relation to neo-liberal economic theories of subjectivity, drawing on Foucault's lectures at the Collège de France, his late work on the care of the self, and the theory of human capital developed by "Chicago-School" economists.
COURSES TAUGHT:
Foundations of Political Theory
Modern Political Theory
Contemporary Political Theory
Society and Its Discontents
The Politics of Punishment
EDUCATION:
Ph.D: University of Chicago, 2008
M.A: University of Chicago, 2004
B.A: Indiana University, Bloomington, 2002