Charles t lee biography

Charles T. Lee is Associate Professor of Justice and Social Inquiry in the School of Social Transformation. Working across the fields of political theory, critical theory, cultural studies, and critical citizenship studies, his research is broadly concerned with innovative formations of political agency and cultural resistance from within the global circuits of neoliberal capitalism.

His first book, Ingenious Citizenship: Recrafting Democracy for Social Change (Duke University Press, ), investigates the everyday practices of abject subjects such as migrant domestic workers, global sex workers, and transgender people as alternative enactments of citizenship, and examines the unconventional lessons of these improvisations of citizenship for social movement activism. The book received the Transdisciplinary Humanities Book Award from the Institute for Humanities Research. 

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