Dr. Claire Rasmussen
Associate Professor
Political Theory and Gender and Politics
University of Delaware
460 Smith Hall
Newark, DE 19716
302-831-2355
Biography
Claire Rasmussen, PhD (University of Washington, 2003) joined the Department in 2003 with joint appointments in Women and Gender Studies and Legal Studies. They research and teach in the areas of political theory and public law with specialty in feminist, queer, and post-humanist theory. Their most recent book project examines the relationship between liberal democratic ideas of self-governance and citizenship and the regulation of sexuality. Other projects include examinations of the sexual politics of the populist right and conservative ideas of nature.
Recent Publications
(2020) “A Future is Female: Loving Animals and Scientific Romance.” In The Future is Unwritten. Eds. Judith Grant and Sean Parson. Lexington Books.
(2018) “Human, All Too Human Geographies” with Michael Brown in Handbook on the Geographies of Power. Eds. Mat Coleman and John Agnew. Edward Elgar, Publishers.
(2018) “A Single Trait: Animal Injury, Legal Trust, and Non-Human Personhood.” in Anne Bloom and David Engel, eds. Injury and Injustice: The Cultural Politics of Harm and Redress. Cambridge University Press.
(2011) The Autonomous Animal: Self-Governance and Modern Subjectivity. University of Minnesota Press.
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