Joanna Wuest "State, Economy, and Social Justice"

Thursday, September 1, 2022 4:30 PM EDT
Merten Hall, #1202

Join us in person or via Zoom for the first event of our Fall 2022 Colloquium Series with Joanna Wuest!

In our age of vast economic inequality, studies of social justice ought to foreground the influence of corporate power—broadly conceived to include individual firms, activist CEOs, business lobbies, and billionaire libertarian ideologues. This political economic perspective reveals both the incentives that drive conflicts over “woke capitalism” as well as the connections among assaults on civil rights, the regulatory state, and social welfare services.

Joanna Wuest leaves her postdoc at Princeton to serve as Assistant Professor of Politics at Mount Holyoke College. Her book, Born This Way: Science, Citizenship, and Inequality in the American LGBTQ+ Movement, is forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press. Currently, she is writing a second book tentatively titled Uneven Egalitarianism: Civil Rights, Corporate Power, and American Constitutionalism.