Kristin Zuhone is a PhD Candidate in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, studying Contemporary Political Theory, the History of Political Thought, and Comparative Politics. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and a master’s degree in the Liberal Arts, both from the University of Pennsylvania.
Kristin works at the intersection of political theory and international relations, exploring the potential for democratic theory, political legitimacy, public participation, and constituency formation above and below, as well as across and beyond, the territorial boundaries of sovereign states. Her dissertation defends affectedness (over alternatives of subjection and citizenship) as the best answer to the question of how to constitute the demos, on the grounds that it alone satisfies both substantive and procedural conditions for democratic legitimacy—necessitating only the subjective identification of individuals, not objective categorization by institutions.
