From the Editor

• Date: 01 February 2020
• DOI: 10.1177/0090591719900048
• Published date: 01 February 2020
• Subject Matter: From the Editor

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Political Theory

2020, Vol. 48(1) 3

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Editorial

From the Editor

With this issue, I would like to thank Melvin Rogers and Kye Barker for their

dedicated work as review editor and assistant editor, respectively, over the

past three years. The review editor is responsible for selecting the books that

the journal covers; soliciting evaluations from colleagues in political theory

and related fields; and editing the review essays, symposia, and single-book

reviews for publication. I am grateful to Melvin and Kye for their attentive-

ness to every dimension of this process, and I wish them well in their next

endeavors. Melvin, an associate professor of political science at Brown, is

working on a book entitled The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy,

and Freedom in African American Political Thought. Kye recently completed

his Ph.D. at UCLA, where he is a lecturer, and he is revising his dissertation,

A Political Theory of Wonder: Feelings of Order in Modern Political Thought,

into a book manuscript.

I am quite delighted to welcome Nancy Luxon and Baruch Malewich as

the new review editor and assistant editor. Nancy is an associate professor

of political science at the University of Minnesota. Specializing in ques-

tions of power, authority, and truth-telling, she is currently writing a book

that analyzes the political and psychological processes of decolonization

and “disalienation” in French North Africa. Baruch, who works at the

intersection of political theory and international relations, is a graduate

student at Minnesota.

Thanks are also owed to Rainer Forst, professor of political theory and

philosophy at Goethe University Frankfurt and codirector of the Normative

Orders Research Cluster at Justitia Amplificata. Rainer has served on the

Executive Editorial Committee since 2012 and has been an invaluable source

of advice and support. I am excited to announce that Shalini Satkunanandan,

associate professor of political science at the University of California, Davis,

has agreed to join the EEC for a six-year term. Shalini’s work on such topics

as responsibility, passions, and faith is distinctively ecumenical, joining the

history of political thought and contemporary theory, the legal and the politi-

cal, and continental and analytical approaches.

Lawrie Balfour

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