Two new scholars join the JSP Faculty! One more to come in January
Kinch Hoekstra
Kinch graduated from Brown University in 1987, majoring in both English and Philosophy. He won a Marshall Scholarship at Oxford, where he wrote his dissertation under Bernard Williams, completing his PhD in 1998. In 1994, even before obtaining his PhD, he had joined the Oxford faculty, initially as a Lecturer in Classical Philosophy at New College and Jesus. He then moved to Balliol and the University as a whole in 1996 and 1998, respectively. He accepted an appointment with tenure in 2002 at Balliol. He has been awarded prestigious and competitive fellowships -- first at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and second at the Ahmanson Getty Center at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has general interests in the history of political and legal thought. His particular subject area is the thought of Thomas Hobbes.He is the author of more than a dozen articles on the history of political thought. His book, Thomas Hobbes and the Creation of Order, will be forthcoming from Oxford University Press later this year.
Professor Hoekstra will teach courses on the history of political and legal thought. He is jointly appointed with the Department of Political Science
Sarah Song
Sarah Song joined the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at Boalt Hall in 2007. Her fields of interest include political philosophy and the history of modern political thought. Her research focuses on issues of citizenship, identity, and diversity. Her book, Justice, Gender, and the Politics of Multiculturalism is forthcoming this year from Cambridge University Press, examines conflicts between the pursuit of justice for religious and cultural minority groups and the pursuit of gender equality. Her current work explores different ideals of citizenship and their implications for immigrant integration policy in contemporary liberal democracies.
Song has received fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Prior to coming to Berkeley, she taught in the Political Science Department at M.I.T. She received her B.A. from Harvard College, an M.Phil. from Oxford University, and Ph.D. from Yale University.
Professor Song will teach democracy and justice in multicultural societies. She is jointly appointed with the Department of Political Science
Coming in January! Justin McCrary returning to Berkeley (Econ Phd 2003) from the Ford School of Public Policy and the Department of Economics at the University of Michigan
