Keally McBride

Dr. Keally McBride joined the Politics department in Fall 2007. She received her graduate degrees at University of California at Berkeley with a focus in political theory, and is happy to be back in the Bay Area after teaching at Cornell University, Tulane, Temple, and the University of Pennsylvania. She has published two books, Collective Dreams: Political Imagination and Community, andPunishment and Political Order. Her current research is on political theories of decolonization; investigating how ideas of liberation can change our views on global politics and also our understanding of power and social change.

She enjoys both teaching and writing, and even teaching writing. She offers classes in Introduction to Political Theory, Feminist Politics and Theory, Citizenship and Globalization, American Political Thought, Theories of Justice, and Comparative Western European Politics.