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Ali Aslam

  • Associate Professor of Politics
Ali Aslam

Ali Aslam is a political theorist whose research and teaching examine how citizens negotiate key concepts like freedom, recognition, and democracy through political struggle.  He is author of Ordinary Democracy: Sovereignty and Citizenship Beyond the Neoliberal Impasse (2017) and has published articles on social movements, including Black Lives Matter and Occupy.  He teaches courses on grassroots democracy, political economy, democratic theory and practice, and the history of political thought.

Areas of Expertise

Education

  • Ph.D., Duke University
  • M.P.P., University of Michigan Ann Arbor
  • B.A., Rutgers College

Happening at Mount Holyoke

Recent Campus News

Students on campus attended the Baccalaureate event in regalia, masked and sitting six feet apart.

A Baccalaureate event unlike any other

This year’s Baccalaureate at º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Ëù was livestreamed for the first time in its history, due to COVID-19.

The 1619 Project was published in 2019 with the goal of re-examining the legacy of slavery in the United States and timed for the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Virginia.

The 1619 Project is the Common Read for 2020

º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Ëù’s Common Read for 2020 will be prose essays from The New York Times Magazine’s ongoing initiative The 1619 Project.

Why would Log Cabin Republicans back Trump?

Ali Aslam, assistant professor of politics at º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Ëù, explains the Log Cabin Republicans’ surprising endorsement.

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Recent Publications

Ali Aslam, David W. McIvor, and Joel Alden Schlosser (2024) Published Earthborn Democracy: A Political Theory of Entangled Life, Columbia University Press.

Ali Aslam, Azulina Green ’17, and Savannah Harriman-Pote ’20, "Co-ops at the University: Lessons from Mo'Coffee," paper presented at the Association for Cooperative Educators Annual Conference, Denver, CO, July 18-20, 2017

Aslam, A., McIvor, D., & Schlosser, J. (2019). Democratic Theory When Democracy Is Fugitive, Democratic Theory, 6(2), 27-40. Retrieved Jan 22, 2020, from 

Aslam, A. (2017). The Future of Bad Collectivity. Law, Culture and the Humanities,174387211771344. doi:10.1177/1743872117713444

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