Jill Locke

Dr. Jill Locke teaches a range of courses in the history of political thought, democratic theory, and feminist theory. She has served as Chair of the Political Science department and Director of the Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies program at Gustavus. Dr. Locke has also published several articles, essays, and reviews and is the co-editor of Feminist Interpretations of Alexis de Tocqueville (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009) and the author of Democracy and the Death of Shame: Political Equality and Social Disturbance (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press). She has held fellowships from the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation, the Center for Ethics and Public Affairs at Tulane University, and the Institute for Advanced Study, where she is spending the 2014-15 academic year. 

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