Polina Whitehouse is a second-year MPhil student in political theory. Supervised by David Leopold, she is working on a thesis that defends the holistic and systematic dimensions of utopia, understood as a method for political theory. Previously, she completed her bachelor's degree in Social Studies at Harvard University, where she wrote a thesis on restorative justice as a participatory democratic practice.
Research Areas and Interests
- Utopian political thought and utopia as method
- Totality and negativism in critical theory
- Ideal and non-ideal theory
- Criminal justice, restorative justice, and prison abolition
- Marx and Marxism
- Feminism
- Democracy
