Emma Ebowe

Assistant Professor of Government & Africana Studies

Office : Chancellors 348
Links : [[evebowe, Email]]
Office Hours: Wednesdays, 3:00 pm-5:00 pm or by appointment/https://calendly.com/emma-ebowe
Research Interests: Political theory; black political theory; feminist theory; theories of justice; democratic theory

Background

Professor Ebowe is an Assistant Professor of Government and Africana Studies. She is a political theorist whose current book project explores the state’s role in intimate relationships in the contemporary U.S. and British foster systems. Her work provides an account of racial, class, and sexist injustice in the foster system on relational grounds. She suggests both ethical and policy correctives for this injustice, and proposes new normative ideals to govern the state’s intervention into intimate relationships through the welfare state. Her forthcoming work will soon be published in the American Journal for Political Science.

Professor Ebowe received her PhD from the Government Department, with a secondary field in African and African American Studies, at Harvard University. She was a James M. and Cathleen D. Stone PhD Scholar in Inequality and Wealth Concentration, a Graduate Fellow at the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics, and a Dwight D. Eisenhower/ Clifford Roberts Graduate Fellow. Prior to her doctoral degree, Professor Ebowe received her BA in Political Science and German Studies from McGill University in 2018.