People
Convenors
Dr Matteo Bonotti
Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations School of Social Sciences Monash University
Dr Bonotti is a political theorist whose research interests include linguistic justice, free speech, political liberalism, food justice, and the normative dimensions of partisanship. These interests are diverse but unified by a common underlying theme: ethical pluralism and cultural diversity in contemporary societies, and the question of how the state should respond to them.
Dr Terry Macdonald
Senior Lecturer in International Relations School of Social and Political Sciences University of Melbourne
Dr Macdonald works at the intersection between International Relations theory and normative political theory, on topics related to global democracy, political legitimacy, and political justice.
Dr Liane Hartnett
Independent Researcher
Dr Hartnett’s work is in the interstices of international political theory and intellectual history. She is currently working on a book manuscript which explores love’s normative work in war and world politics. Beyond her interests in emotion and the ethics of war and peace, Liane is interested in exploring the relationship between ‘Western’ and non-‘Western’ political theory.
Steering Committee Members
Dr Miriam Bankovsky
Senior Lecturer in Politics Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy La Trobe University
Dr Bankovsky’s research crosses politics, philosophy, and history of economic thought. She has published on theories of justice, economic envy, civil disobedience, economic policy with ethical values, cooperation in economic theory, and the family in the history of market-paradigm economics. She is also undertaking research on academic freedom.
Dr Nicholas Barry
Senior Lecturer in Politics Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy La Trobe University
Dr Barry’s research interests are in the areas of Australian politics, political institutions, and political theory. He is currently working on a defence of luck egalitarianism, on the links between contemporary egalitarian theory and policy debates over disadvantage and welfare reform, and on human rights protection in Australia.
Associate Professor Stephanie Collins
Associate Professor of Philosophy Dianoia Institute of Philosophy Australian Catholic University
Associate Professor Collins’s research primarily concerns the philosophy of groups, that is, how we should conceptualise groups’ ontological status, mental and epistemic capacities, agency, responsibility, and duties. She is keenly interested in applying these conceptualisations to states and businesses.
Associate Professor Patrick Emerton
Associate Professor of Law Faculty of Law Monash University
Associate Professor Emerton is a legal and political theorist who researches in fields including constitutional law and theory, just war theory, human rights theory, property and justice, statutory interpretation, and anti-terrorism law.
Associate Professor Daniel Halliday
Associate Professor in Political Philosophy School of Historical and Philosophical Studies University of Melbourne
Associate Professor Halliday works mainly on topics in political philosophy, particularly on markets and other aspects of economic justice. He has also worked on the ethics of global vaccine allocation and on the moral dimensions of the educational arms race.
Dr Suzanne Killmister
Senior Lecturer Department of Philosophy Monash University
Dr Killmister’s primary areas of research are social and political philosophy, ethics, and action theory, and her recent work has focused on the concept of dignity and the relationship between dignity and human rights.
Dr Matthew Lister
Senior Lecturer BL Deakin Law School Deakin University
Dr Lister is a legal and political philosopher, writing on immigration and refugee law, international law, political philosophy, jurisprudence, and topics related to business ethics, broadly understood to include business law and labour and employment law issues.
Dr Benjamin Moffitt
Senior Lecturer in Politics National School of Arts Australian Catholic University
Dr Moffitt’s research is located at the intersection of comparative politics, contemporary political theory and political communications, and focuses on contemporary populism across the globe.
Dr Zim Nwokora
Senior Lecturer in Politics and Policy Studies SHSS Arts & Education Deakin University
A comparative political scientist by training, Dr Nwokora’s research examines theoretical and empirical questions about political party systems, constitutional structures and democracy. This research is informed by close attention to politics in the United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom and Australia.
Associate Professor Steven Slaughter
Associate Professor in International Relations SHSS Arts & Education Deakin University
Associate Professor Slaughter is a researcher who works within the fields of International Relations, Global Political Economy and International Political Theory/political and democratic theory with respect to the political implications of globalisation and global governance.
Associate Professor Lael (‘Lulu’) Weis
Melbourne Law School University of Melbourne
Associate Professor Weis’s principal research interests lie at the intersection of constitutional legal theory, democratic political theory, and comparative constitutional law. She is particularly interested in methodological questions concerning the use of comparative constitutional law to analyse issues in constitutional theory.
