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About Her Place in Theory
In Her Place in Theory, Juliette Marchant sits down with scholars from a variety of disciplines to talk about the women who’ve shaped the way we think. Each episode spotlights one woman, past or present, whose ideas have guided, challenged or inspired the guest’s own work. It’s a series about influence, inspiration, and the overlooked legacies of women in theory.
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- 4 Nov 2025
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- 18 May 2026
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13 episodes in the feed.
18 May 2026
Frigga Haug with Jeta Mulaj
In this episode, Juliette Marchant is joined by Jeta Mulaj, Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Toronto Metropolitan University, to discuss the work of Frigga Haug: Marxist feminist theorist, sociologist, and one of the most important thinkers of social reproduction and collective emancipation in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Together, Mulaj and Marchant explore what makes Haug’s work so enduring and generative: her critique of capitalist social relations, her theory of women’s labor and social reproduction, and her insistence that emancipation must transform everyday life as much as economic structures. From questioning the relationship between victimhood and agency, to the “four-in-one perspective,” the conversation highlights Haug as a thinker who challenged both economistic Marxism and liberal feminism, urging instead a democratic, collective reimagining of work, care, education, and human flourishing under and beyond capitalism. Texts Referenced in the Episode: Selected Writings of Frigga Haug on Experience, Labour, and Critique - Edited by Jeta Mulaj and Alexandra Colligs (https://www.routledge.com/Selected-Writings-of-Frigga-Haug-on-Experience-Labour-and-Critique/Mulaj-Colligs/p/book/9781032768014) The “Four-in-One Perspective”: A Manifesto for aMore Just Life - Frigga Haug (https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduates/modules/literaturetheoryandtime/ltt.haug_four-in-one.pdf)
7 Apr 2026
Mary Wollstonecraft with Sylvana Tomaselli
In this episode, Juliette Marchant is joined by Sylvana Tomaselli, Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge, and a leading scholar of the history of political thought to discuss the work of Mary Wollstonecraft: writer, philosopher, and a bold critic of the social and political conventions of her time. Together, Tomaselli and Marchant explore what makes Wollstonecraft’s work so striking and enduring: her arguments for women’s education, her critique of inequality and dependency, and her insistence that reason and virtue—not custom or hierarchy—should shape human life. From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman to her reflections on revolution, the conversation highlights Wollstonecraft as a thinker who challenged the assumptions of her age and offered a powerful account of freedom, independence, and moral responsibility. Texts Referenced in the Episode: Wollstonecraft: Philosophy, Passion, and Politics - Sylvana Tomaselli (https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691169033/wollstonecraft) Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Men and a Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Hints - Edited by Sylvana Tomaselli (https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/politics-international-relations/texts-political-thought/wollstonecraft-vindication-rights-men-and-vindication-rights-woman-and-hints?format=PB&isbn=9780521436335) A Vindication of the Rights of Woman - Mary Wollstonecraft (https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300176476/a-vindication-of-the-rights-of-woman/) The Collected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft - Mary Wollstonecraft edited by Janet Todd (https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-collected-letters-of-mary-wollstonecraft/9780231131421/) Reflections on the Revolution in France - Edmund Burke (https://www.sup.org/books/history/reflections-revolution-france) Emile or On Education - Jean-Jacques Rousseau (https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile/9780465019311/?lens=basic-books)
24 Mar 2026
Lauren Berlant with Michael Dango
In this episode, Juliette Marchant is joined by Michael Dango, Associate Professor of English at Rice University, to discuss the work of Lauren Berlant: an interdisciplinary theorist of affect, intimacy, and political life, and one of the most original and influential thinkers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Together, they trace Berlant’s intellectual arc, from their earlywork on national fantasy and citizenship to later writings on affect, precarity, and the ordinary, while reflecting on the attachments and everyday forms through which political life is lived. From The Anatomy of National Fantasy and The Queen of America Goes to Washington City to Cruel Optimism, the conversation highlights Berlant’s distinctive method and the enduring force of concepts that illuminate how what sustains us can also hold us in place. Texts Referenced in the Episode: The Queen of America Goes to Washington City - Lauren Berlant (https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-queen-of-america-goes-to-washington-city) The Anatomy of National Fantasy: Hawthorne, Utopia, and Everyday Life - Lauren Berlant (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo3684624.html) The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture - Lauren Berlant (https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-female-complaint) Cruel Optimism - Lauren Berlant (https://www.dukeupress.edu/cruel-optimism) On the Inconvenience of Other People - Lauren Berlant (https://www.dukeupress.edu/on-the-inconvenience-of-other-people) Sex in Public - Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner (https://www-journals-uchicago-edu.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/448884) Genre Flailing - Lauren Berlant (https://capaciousjournal.com/article/genre-flailing) Crisis Style: The Aesthetics of Repair - Michael Dango (https://www.sup.org/books/literary-studies-and-literature/crisis-style) Madonna's Erotica - Michael Dango (https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/madonnas-erotica-9781501388996/)
10 Mar 2026
Judith Shklar with Bernard Yack
In this episode, Juliette Marchant is joined by Bernard Yack, Lerman-Neubauer Professor of Democracy and Political Science at Brandeis University, to discuss the work of Judith Shklar: political theorist, historian of ideas, and one of the most incisive liberal thinkers of the twentieth century. Together, Yack and Marchant explore what makes Shklar’s work so bracing and enduring: “the liberalism of fear,” her insistence that cruelty is the worst political evil, and her distinctive approach to injustice, hypocrisy, and exile. From Ordinary Vices to The Faces of Injustice, the conversation highlights Shklar as a thinker who challenged both complacent liberal optimism and abstract moralism, urging instead a vigilant, historically grounded defense of freedom against the ever-present dangers of cruelty and abuse of power. Texts Referenced in the Episode: Nationalism and the Moral Psychology of Community - Bernard Yack (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo12893566.html) The Problems of a Political Animal - Bernard Yack (https://www.ucpress.edu/books/the-problems-of-a-political-animal/paper) Liberalism without Illusions - Edited by Bernard Yack (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo3614599.html) Legalism - Judith Shklar (https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674523517) The Liberalism of Fear - Judith Shklar (https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674306639) The Faces of Injustice - Judith Shklar (https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300056709/the-faces-of-injustice/) Ordinary Vices - Judith Shklar (https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674641761) After Utopia: The Decline of Political Faith - Judith Shklar (https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691200859/after-utopia?srsltid=AfmBOoqCWL4q5p31IfqmkH6s_Bo3Ehn7Aus6dPLyW2YC36QPlHwj-VC5) Who Needs a Theory of Justice? Judith Shklar and the Politics of Injustice - Robin Douglass (https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/who-needs-a-theory-of-justice-judith-shklar-and-the-politics-of-injustice/5B25A4AF90526DAE217F93E87765E074)
24 Feb 2026
Elinor Ostrom with Aurelian Craiutu
In this episode, Juliette Marchant is joined by Aurelian Craiutu, Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, to discuss the work of Elinor Ostrom — Nobel Prize–winning political economist and one of the most original thinkers about governance in the late twentieth century. Together, Craiutu and Marchant explore what makes Ostrom’s work so enduring and provocative: her challenge to the conventional state-versus-market dichotomy, her theory of polycentric governance, and her insistence that ordinary citizens are capable of self-government. From Governing the Commons to the broader intellectual legacy of the Bloomington School, the episode highlights Ostrom as a thinker who redefined how we understand collective action, institutional diversity, and the fragile art of making democracy work. Texts Referenced in the Episode: Liberalism under Siege: The Political Thought of the French Doctrinaires - Aurelian Craiutu (https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/liberalism-under-siege-9798765184295/) A Virtue for Courageous Minds: Moderation in French Political Thought, 1748-1830 - Aurelian Craiutu (https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691146768/a-virtue-for-courageous-minds?srsltid=AfmBOopcWdvaFl8_p8XJYtVfBTG54LsHSMYJ40CKIEQ3y7-wOT-LY93W) Faces of Moderation: The Art of Balance in an Age of Extremes - Aurelian Craiutu (https://www.pennpress.org/9780812224092/faces-of-moderation/) Why Not Moderation? Letters to Young Radicals - Aurelian Craiutu (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/why-not-moderation/E1207BABEEE580C1E5BC823B28351A2B) Governing the Commons - Elinor Ostrom (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/governing-the-commons/A8BB63BC4A1433A50A3FB92EDBBB97D5) Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems (Nobel Prize Lecture) - Elinor Ostrom (https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2009/ostrom/lecture/) Actual World, Possible Future - Short Documentary (https://www.pbs.org/video/actual-world-possible-future-09rkab/) The Tragedy of the Commons - Garrett Hardin (https://math.uchicago.edu/~shmuel/Modeling/Hardin,%20Tragedy%20of%20the%20Commons.pdf)
3 Feb 2026
Marilyn Frye with Gina Schouten
In this episode, Juliette Marchant is joined by Gina Schouten, Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University, to discuss the work of Marilyn Frye - feminist philosopher and one of the most influential thinkers on oppression in the late twentieth century. Together, Schouten and Marchant explore what makes Frye’s work so enduring and incisive: her account of oppression as a systematic and structural phenomenon, her attention to the everyday realities of gendered power, and her groundbreaking analysis of the politics of emotions, particularly anger and resentment. From The Politics of Reality to Frye’s reflections on responsibility, solidarity, and feminist consciousness, the episode highlights Frye as a thinker whose ideas continue to shape how we understand power, emotion, and resistance in contemporary political life. Texts Referenced in the Episode: The Anatomy of Justice: On the Shape, Substance, and Power of Liberal Egalitarianism - Gina Schouten (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-anatomy-of-justice-9780198898634?cc=us&lang=en&) Liberalism, Neutrality, and the Gendered Division of Labor - Gina Schouten (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/liberalism-neutrality-and-the-gendered-division-of-labor-9780198813071?cc=us&lang=en&) The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory - Marilyn Frye (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/197801/politics-of-reality-by-marilyn-frye/) The Uses of Anger - Audre Lorde (https://americanstudies.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Lorde%20-%20The%20Uses%20of%20Anger.pdf) The Aptness of Anger - Amia Srinivasan (https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1542193/1/The%20Aptness%20of%20Anger_Current.pdf)
20 Jan 2026
Clara Zetkin with Kristin Gjesdal
In this episode, Juliette Marchant is joined by Kristin Gjesdal, Professor of Philosophy at Temple University, to discuss the life and thought of Clara Zetkin - Marxist theorist, communist activist, and one of the founders of the Social Democratic Women’s Movement in Germany. Together, Gjesdal and Marchant examine what makes Zetkin’s work so distinctive and urgent: her commitment to women’s liberation as inseparable from class struggle, her attention to the lived realities of women workers, and her powerful analysis of fascism as a mass political movement. From socialist feminism and International Women’s Day to anti-fascism, racism, and political steadfastness in dark times, the episode highlights Zetkin as an unruly thinker whose ideas continue to challenge and illuminate contemporary political life. Texts Referenced in the Episode: Opprørerne: Kvinner som endret filosofien - Kristin Gjesdal (https://www.cappelendamm.no/boker/opprorerne-kristin-gjesdal-9788202824808) Rebellinnen der Philosophie - Kristin Gjesdal (https://bastei-luebbe.de/Buecher/Sachbuecher/Rebellinnen-der-Philosophie/9783751775076) The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Women Philosophers in the German Tradition - Dalia Nassar and Kristin Gjesdal (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-nineteenth-century-women-philosophers-in-the-german-tradition-9780190066239?cc=us&lang=en&) Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition - Dalia Nassar and Kristin Gjesdal (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/women-philosophers-in-the-long-nineteenth-century-9780190868031?cc=us&lang=en&)
30 Dec 2025
Nancy Rosenblum with Joshua Cherniss
In this episode, Juliette Marchant is joined by Joshua Cherniss, Associate Professor of Government at Georgetown University, to discuss the political thought of Nancy Rosenblum, the Harvard University Senator Joseph Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government emerita. The conversation weaves together Cherniss’s intellectual journey with an account of Rosenblum’s influence as a teacher and mentor, and how her work shaped his approach to political ethics and liberal theory. Together, Cherniss and Marchant explore what makes Rosenblum’s work so influential: her focus on the personal experience of liberalism, her attention to motivationand everyday moral life, and her insistence on grounding political theory in psychological and sociological realism. From pluralism and shifting involvements to neighborly relations and the democracy of everyday life, the episode highlights a vision of liberalism that is lived, complex, and deeply human. Texts Referenced in the Episode: Another Liberalism: Romanticism and the Reconstruction of Liberal Thought - Nancy L. Rosenblum (https://nrosenblum.scholars.harvard.edu/resource/another-liberalism-romanticism-and-reconstruction-liberal-thought) Good Neighbors: The Democracy of Everyday Life in America - Nancy L. Rosenblum (https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691169439/good-neighbors?srsltid=AfmBOopFJWF6WIjRQYCm9m-0JySrgWwemPgk5LPtMsBPyCk-9qQNlxLn) Liberalism and the Moral Life - Edited by Nancy L. Rosenblum (https://books.google.com.au/books/about/Liberalism_and_the_Moral_Life.html?id=wWnuAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y) Liberalism without Illusions: Essays on Liberal Theory and the Political Vision of Judith N. Shklar - Edited by Bernard Yack (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo3614599.html) A Mind and Its Time: The Development of Isaiah Berlin's Political Thought - Joshua L. Cherniss (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/a-mind-and-its-time-9780199673261?cc=au&lang=en&) Liberalism in Dark Times: The Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century - Joshua L. Cherniss (https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691217031/liberalism-in-dark-times?srsltid=AfmBOor3iEUdqRQlVMaPANkiSmiBrA5evNhOBq8WScBBGUyhEnQZojm0)
16 Dec 2025
Martha Nussbaum with Duncan Ivison
In this episode, Juliette Marchant is joined by Duncan Ivison—Professor of Political Philosophy and President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manchester—to talk about the formidable Martha Nussbaum: philosopher, public intellectual, and one of the key architects of the capabilities approach. Whether she’s breathing new life into questions first posed by the ancients, advancing a passionate defence of liberal education, or offering rich reflections on the politics of emotion, Nussbaum has achieved an extraordinary amount in her career so far. This episode provides an energising and insightful look at why her ideas continue to challenge, inspire and provoke contemporary academic and popular audiences today. Texts Referenced in the Episode: The Fragility of Goodness - Martha Nussbaum (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/fragility-of-goodness/B212012979833A828690B9CA907A87BF) Tragedy and Justice: Bernard Williams Remembered - Martha Nussbaum (https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/martha-c-nussbaum-tragedy-and-justice/) Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach - Martha Nussbaum (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/women-and-human-development/58D8D2FBFC1C9E902D648200C4B7009E) Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education - Martha Nussbaum (https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674179493) Postcolonial Liberalism - Duncan Ivison (https://philarchive.org/rec/IVIPL) Political Theory and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples - Edited by Duncan Ivison, Paul Patton and Will Sanders (https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/politics-international-relations/political-theory/political-theory-and-rights-indigenous-peoples?format=PB)
2 Dec 2025
Helene Stöcker with Lydia Moland
In this episode, Juliette Marchant is joined by Lydia Moland, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Philosophy at Colby College, to uncover the extraordinary—and often forgotten—story of Helene Stöcker, a trailblazer of early 20th-century feminism. Stöcker championed sexual reform, reproductive freedom, and radical pacifism, and pushed for a “new ethic” she believed could reshape society from the inside out. Moland walks us through Stöcker’s bold readings of Nietzsche, her fight for gender equality and social justice, and her fierce resistance to rising nationalism and militarism before World War II. It’s a conversation about a visionary thinker whose ideas feel strikingly urgent today. Texts Referenced in the episode: Lydia Maria Child : A Radical American Life - Lydia Moland (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo179556641.html) The Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century - Edited by Lydia Moland and Alison Stone (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-american-and-british-women-philosophers-in-the-nineteenth-century-9780197558898?cc=us&lang=en) The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Women Philosophers in the German Tradition - Edited by Kristin Gjesdal and Dalia Nassar (https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/56210)
18 Nov 2025
Hanna Pitkin with Shterna Friedman
In this episode of Her Place in Theory, Juliette Marchant is joined by Shterna Friedman, Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard University, for a conversation about the life and legacy of Hanna Pitkin. They explore Pitkin’s transformative account of political representation, her nuanced and sometimes puzzling engagement with Hannah Arendt’s idea of the social, and the enduring significance of her approach to political theory. Shterna also reflects on her time as Pitkin’s research assistant, offering thoughtful insights into what Pitkin taught her about pedagogy, mentorship, and the act of thinking itself. Texts Referenced in the Episode: The Concept of Representation - Hanna Pitkin (https://www.ucpress.edu/books/the-concept-of-representation/paper) The Attack of the Blob - Hanna Piktin (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo3633281.html)
4 Nov 2025
Germaine de Staël with Helena Rosenblatt
In this episode of Her Place in Theory, Juliette Marchant is joined by Helena Rosenblatt, Distinguished Professor of History, French, Political Science, Biography and Memoir at the CUNY Graduate Center, to discuss the life and legacy of Germaine de Staël. Together, they explore de Staël’s role in shaping modern liberalism, her navigation of the tumultuous politics of Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, and the intellectual networks that made her a force across Europe. What can de Staël’s ideas about freedom, emotion, and conversation teach us about politics, and about the life of the mind, today? Texts Referenced in the Episode: The Lost History of Liberalism – Helena Rosenblatt (https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691170701/the-lost-history-of-liberalism?srsltid=AfmBOopJFoXDIf-OXXJTKcrOUqaQ2TBIG144q_ahEQZl_Uq-EqoJ_AGm) Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution - Germaine de Staël (https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/craiutu-considerations-on-the-principal-events-of-the-french-revolution-lf-ed)
4 Nov 2025
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