Alicia Steinmetz
Alicia Steinmetz is a political theorist and historian of political thought, specializing on early modern and enlightenment political thought. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Florida International University. Previously, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the MacMillan Center at Yale University and with the Civics Initiative at Stanford University. Her research and teaching interests include advertising, imagination and imaginaries, translation, sophistry and rhetoric, pluralism, and theories of freedom. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Yale University, and a BA from Bryn Mawr College, and was previously a Fulbright Fellow in Nitra, Slovakia and a Fox Fellow at the University of Cambridge, Sidney Sussex College.