Dr. Emerson Bodde

Dr. Emerson Bodde received his B.A. in Philosophy and History from Case Western Reserve University in 2016 and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Vanderbilt University in 2023, and has served as a Lecturer in Philosophy at Clemson University since 2023. His research interests revolve around the history of political philosophy and the development of socio-political concepts, with an emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries. His recent work is focused on how social class ought to be defined in philosophy in light of the recent trends in the social criticism of capitalism, theories of social identity and intersectionality, and a relative absence of clarity about the notion of class in theories of justice, social ontology, and intersectional identities. He has published articles in venues including Philosophy & Social Criticism, Transactions of the Charles Pierce Society, Asian Philosophy, Journal of Spinoza Studies, Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society, and an edited volume, New Perspectives on the Ontology of Social Identities.  He is currently working on papers dealing with the epistemic dimensions of democracy and authoritarianism, the lacuna of caste in theories of social criticism and in North America, and the international intellectual exchanges of political-philosophical ideas in the Interwar Era which implicitly frame contemporary political thinking.