# Torsten Menge Research Associate ![Torsten Menge](/sites/g/files/omnuum1371/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/globalpoliticalthought/files/menge-torsten.jpg?itok=IXt8X4L_) email laptop\_windows [Torsten Menge's profile at Northwestern University in Qatar](https://www.qatar.northwestern.edu/directory/profiles/menge-torsten.html) Torsten Menge is Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Liberal Arts Program at Northwestern University in Qatar. He holds a PhD in philosophy from Georgetown University. His work is at the intersection of social and political philosophy, social ontology, and social theory. He is particularly interested in conceptions of power, the functions of philosophical genealogies, and the nature of political community. He is currently working on a book manuscript with the title *How Power Matters.* The book develops a novel account of power that clarifies how power matters to how we live, elaborates the role that power can play in normative theorizing, and explains what is at stake in disagreements about the nature of power. His second current research project concerns the nature of political community in a world shaped by the legacies of colonialism. Torsten has published articles in *Philosophers' Imprint*, *Journal of the American Philosophical Association*, *Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy*, *European Journal of Social Theory*, *Genealogy+Critique*, *Land*, and *Southwest Philosophy Review*. - ## People categories [Associate](/people-categories/graduate-associates)