Michael Shapiro

Background: I began teaching at the University of Hawaii’s Department of Political Science after receiving my Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1966. I have also taught at the University of California-Berkeley, 1968-1970, twice at the University of Massachusetts on exchanges (1979 and 1986), at the University of Bergen in Norway (1972-73) and in the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU (2002). My early research was in the areas of political psychology and decision making (applied to electoral politics, to US foreign policy decision making, and to Norwegian Oil production decision making). Since the early 1980's my research and writing has been in the areas of political theory and philosophy, critical social theory, cultural studies, politics of media, indigenous politics, and critical international studies. In connection with this turn in my research I have been involved in co-editing two books series, one in International studies and Comparative politics (with the University of Minnesota Press) entitled Borderlines and one in Political Thought (with the University of Edinburgh Press) entitled Taking on the Political.

Research Interests: My research and teaching interests are in the areas of political theory and philosophy, critical social theory, global politics, politics of media, politics of culture, and indigenous politics.

Selected publications:

Violent Cartographies: Mapping Cultures of War (University of Minnesota Press, 1997).

Cinematic Political Thought: Narrating Race, Nation and Gender (Edinburgh University Press and NYU Press, 1999).

Moral Spaces: Rethinking Ethics and World Politics (University of Minnesota Press, 1999) co-edited with David Campbell

For Moral Ambiguity: National Culture and the Politics of the Family ( University of Minnesota Press, 2001).

Reading ‘Adam Smith’: Desire, History and Value New edition (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002).

The Politics of Moralizing co-edited with Jane Bennett (Routledge, 2002).

Methods and Nations: Cultural Governance and the Indigenous Subject (Routledge, 2004).

Sovereign Lives: Power in Global Politics co-edited with Jenny Edkins and Veronique Pin Fat (Routledge: 2005).

Deforming American Political Thought: Ethnicity, Facticity, and Genre (University Press of Kentucky , 2006).

Recent courses taught: American Political Thought, The Politics of Public Art, Indigenous Politics, Genre and Nationhood, Visual Culture and the Public Sphere, War and Cinema, Scope and Methods of Political Science, Politics of Aesthetics.