Samuel Allen Chambers

Samuel A. Chambers is Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University, where he teaches political theory, cultural politics, and political economy. He co-Edits the journal Contemporary Political Theory and is series co-Editor of Routledge's Innovators in Political Theory. His interests are broad and interdisciplinary – ranging from central issues in social and political theory, to engagements with contemporary feminist and queer theory, to contributions to critical television studies. All of his work maintains a core concern with a sort of "glue" that holds together things – e.g. political regimes, sex/gender identities, pedagogical relations – in a way that is neither narrowly political (in the traditional sense of legislation or public policy), nor reductively socio-biological, nor grounded in ethics or morality à la so-called normative political philosophy. His published writings are similarly wide-ranging. He has authored six books, edited four more, and published more than thirty journal articles, along with numerous chapters and essays.