Kyong-Min Son, PhD (Cornell University, 2012) joined the Department in 2012. He specializes in democratic theory and twentieth-century political thought. In his work, Kyong-Min examines how the idea and practice of democracy is historically shaped by surrounding political, socioeconomic, and technological conditions, and engages in contemporary debates in light of his findings. Kyong-Min takes an interdisciplinary approach and integrates social theory, political economy, and the philosophy and history of social science into his work. In his recent book, The Eclipse of the Demos: The Cold War and the Crisis of Democracy before Neoliberalism (University Press of Kansas, 2020), Kyong-Min traces the current crisis of democracy to a multifaceted transformation of democratic theory during the Cold War. He is currently writing a book on the rise of finance capital in the twentieth century and its implications for democratic citizenship.