Joan Cocks

Joan Cocks is Emeritus Professor of Politics at Mount Holyoke College, where she founded and for many years directed the interdisciplinary Program in Critical Social Thought. She is the author of On Sovereignty and Other Political Delusions, Passion and Paradox: Intellectuals Confront the National Question, and The Oppositional Imagination: Feminism, Critique and Political Theory. She has published work on feminism, Marxism, nationalism, sovereignty, cosmopolitanism, and political violence in numerous edited volumes, contributions to symposia and blogs, and journals. In addition to writing on the politics of disappearance and the concept of primitive accumulation, she is currently engaged in work on rethinking citizenship and the meaning of foreignness for a global age. She holds a PhD from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.