Her Place in Theory

In this episode, Juliette Marchant is joined by Helen McCabe, Professor of Political Theory at the University of Nottingham and a leading scholar of John Stuart Mill, feminism, and nineteenth-century political thought, to discuss the life and thought of Harriet Taylor Mill: philosopher, feminist, and one of the most important yet frequently overlooked intellectual voices of the nineteenth century....

In this episode, Juliette Marchant is joined by Danielle Allen, James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University and a leading scholar of political philosophy, democracy, and the American founding, to discuss the life and thought of Abigail Adams: writer, political thinker, and one of the most compelling intellectual voices of the American Revolution and early American republic. Toge...

In this episode, Juliette Marchant is joined by Jeta Mulaj, Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Toronto Metropolitan University, to discuss the work of Frigga Haug: Marxist feminist theorist, sociologist, and one of the most important thinkers of social reproduction and collective emancipation in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Together, Mulaj and Marchant explore what...

In this episode, Juliette Marchant is joined by Sylvana Tomaselli, Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge, and a leading scholar of the history of political thought to discuss the work of Mary Wollstonecraft: writer, philosopher, and a bold critic of the social and political conventions of her time. Together, Tomaselli and Marchant explore what makes Wollstonecraft’s work so striking and enduring:...

In this episode, Juliette Marchant is joined by Michael Dango, Associate Professor of English at Rice University, to discuss the work of Lauren Berlant: an interdisciplinary theorist of affect, intimacy, and political life, and one of the most original and influential thinkers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Together, they trace Berlant’s intellectual arc, from their earlyw...

In this episode, Juliette Marchant is joined by Bernard Yack, Lerman-Neubauer Professor of Democracy and Political Science at Brandeis University, to discuss the work of Judith Shklar: political theorist, historian of ideas, and one of the most incisive liberal thinkers of the twentieth century. Together, Yack and Marchant explore what makes Shklar’s work so bracing and enduring: “the liberalism o...

In this episode, Juliette Marchant is joined by Aurelian Craiutu, Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, to discuss the work of Elinor Ostrom — Nobel Prize–winning political economist and one of the most original thinkers about governance in the late twentieth century. Together, Craiutu and Marchant explore what makes Ostrom’s work so enduring and prov...

In this episode, Juliette Marchant is joined by Gina Schouten, Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University, to discuss the work of Marilyn Frye - feminist philosopher and one of the most influential thinkers on oppression in the late twentieth century. Together, Schouten and Marchant explore what makes Frye’s work so enduring and incisive: her account of oppression as a systematic and structural...

In this episode, Juliette Marchant is joined by Kristin Gjesdal, Professor of Philosophy at Temple University, to discuss the life and thought of Clara Zetkin - Marxist theorist, communist activist, and one of the founders of the Social Democratic Women’s Movement in Germany. Together, Gjesdal and Marchant examine what makes Zetkin’s work so distinctive and urgent: her commitment to women’s libera...

In this episode, Juliette Marchant is joined by Joshua Cherniss, Associate Professor of Government at Georgetown University, to discuss the political thought of Nancy Rosenblum, the Harvard University Senator Joseph Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government emerita. The conversation weaves together Cherniss’s intellectual journey with an account of Rosenblum’s influence as a teacher and...

In this episode, Juliette Marchant is joined by Duncan Ivison—Professor of Political Philosophy and President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manchester—to talk about the formidable Martha Nussbaum: philosopher, public intellectual, and one of the key architects of the capabilities approach. Whether she’s breathing new life into questions first posed by the ancients, advancing a passionat...

In this episode, Juliette Marchant is joined by Lydia Moland, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Philosophy at Colby College, to uncover the extraordinary—and often forgotten—story of Helene Stöcker, a trailblazer of early 20th-century feminism. Stöcker championed sexual reform, reproductive freedom, and radical pacifism, and pushed for a “new ethic” she believed could reshape soc...

In this episode of Her Place in Theory , Juliette Marchant is joined by Shterna Friedman, Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard University, for a conversation about the life and legacy of Hanna Pitkin. They explore Pitkin’s transformative account of political representation, her nuanced and sometimes puzzling engagement with Hannah Arendt’s idea of the social, and the enduring significance...

In this episode of Her Place in Theory , Juliette Marchant is joined by Helena Rosenblatt, Distinguished Professor of History, French, Political Science, Biography and Memoir at the CUNY Graduate Center, to discuss the life and legacy of Germaine de Staël. Together, they explore de Staël’s role in shaping modern liberalism, her navigation of the tumultuous politics of Revolutionary and Napoleonic...

Welcome to Her Place in Theory, a podcast that celebrates ideas and the women that shaped them. In this short preview, host, Juliette Marchant, introduces the concept behind the series, what inspired it, and what listeners can expect in the episodes to come. New episodes will be released every other Tuesday, so subscribe to stay up to date with the stories and ideas of the women who continue to sh...