Professor Jennet Kirkpatrick

EDUCATION

2002, Rutgers University, Ph.D. Political Science                        

1992, Mount Holyoke College, B.A. Politics, magna cum laude        

EMPLOYMENT

2015-   Arizona State University, Associate Professor (with tenure), School of Politics and Global Studies

2012-2015, Arizona State University, Associate Professor (without tenure), Political Science

2005-2012, University of Michigan, Lecturer IV (highest rank), Political Science           

2002-2005, University of Michigan, Lecturer II, Political Science

PUBLICATIONS

PEER-REVIEWED BOOKS 

  1. Jennet Kirkpatrick, 2017, The Virtues of Exit: On Resistance and Quitting Politics, University of North Carolina Press.

  2. Jennet Kirkpatrick, 2008, Uncivil Disobedience: Studies in Violence and Democratic Politics, Princeton University Press.

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

  1. Maša Mrovlje and Jennet Kirkpatrick, 2023, “Beauvoir and Lorde Confront the Honorary Man Trope: Toward a Feminist Theory of Political Resistance,” Women Studies International Forum, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2023.102839. PDF of the published version

  2. Jennet Kirkpatrick and Carolyn Warner, 2023, “Care or Justice: Care Ethics and the Restricted Reporting Sexual Assault Policy in the US Military,” American Journal of Political Science, https://doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12755. PDF of the published version.

  3. Jennet Kirkpatrick, 2022, “The Fantasy of Exit: The Campaign Use and Abuse of Exit in the UK’s 2016 Brexit Debate,” New Political Science, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2022.2062197. PDF of the published version.

  4. Jennet Kirkpatrick, 2021, “Literary Devices: Teaching Social Contract Theory with a Short Story,”  Journal of Political Science Education, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/15512169.2021.1884563. PDF of the published version.

  5. Maša Mrovlje and Jennet Kirkpatrick, 2020, “Grey Zones of Resistance and Contemporary Political Theory,” Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory, vol. 67, no. 165, pages 1-9. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/th.2020.6716501

  6. Jennet Kirkpatrick, 2020, “Fairness Has A Face: Neutrality and Descriptive Representation on Courts,” Politics, Groups, and Identities. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2020.1782951. PDF of the published version.

  7. Jennet Kirkpatrick, 2018, “Resistant Exit,” Contemporary Political Theory, 1-23. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-018-0252-1. PDF of the published version. PDF of the published version.

  8. Jennet Kirkpatrick, 2016, “Walking Away with Thoreau: The Pleasures and Risks of Exit,” American Political Thought, vol. 5, no. 3, 446-466. DOI: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/687359. PDF of the published version.

  9. Jennet Kirkpatrick, 2014, “Exit out of Athens? Migration and Obligation in Plato’s Crito,” Political Theory, vol. 43, no. 3, 356-379. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0090591714541875. PDF of the published version.

  10.  Jennet Kirkpatrick, 2012, “Democracy on the Lam: Crisis, Constitutionalism, and Extra Legality,” Contemporary Political Theory, 11, 264-284.DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/cpt.2011.28. PDF of the published version.

  11. Jennet Kirkpatrick, 2011, “The Prudent Dissident: Unheroic Resistance in Sophocles’ Antigone,” The Review of Politics, vol. 73, no. 3, 401-424. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034670511003421. PDF of the published version.

  12. Jennet Kirkpatrick, 2009, “Come A Little Closer: Citizens, Law, and Identification,” Law, Culture and the Humanities, vol. 5, no. 2, 216-227. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1743872109102489. PDF of the published version.

OTHER PEER/EDITOR-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

  1. Rogers Smith et al., 2020, “APSA Presidential Task Force Report on New Partnerships,” PS: Political Science & Politics, vol. 53, no. 4, pages 847-849. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096520001274

  2. Jennet Kirkpatrick, Miki Kittilson, Valerie Hoekstra, 2020, “Diversity in the Judiciary: How Diversity Matters for Democratic Inclusion, Representation, and Inequalities,” Politics, Groups, and Identities, vol. 8, no. 4, pages 786-789. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2020.1782953

  3. Jennet Kirkpatrick, 2018, “Benjamin R. Barber: The Headstrong Democrat,” in “Benjamin Barber and the Practice of Political Theory, Contemporary Political Theory,” Contemporary Political Theory, vol. 7, no. 4, pages 489-493. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-018-0226-3

  4. Jennet Kirkpatrick, 2010, “Selling Out? Solidarity and Choice in the American Feminist Movement,” Symposium Introduction, “Women’s Choices and the Future of Feminism,” Perspectives on Politics, vol. 8, no. 1, 241-245. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592709992829

  5.  Jennet Kirkpatrick and Ian Robinson, 2005, “Fighting to be Fired (But Only with Just Cause): The Unionization of Nontenure-Track Faculty,” Dissent, vol. 52, no. 1, Winter, 72-76.

  6. Milton Heumann, Jennet F. Kirkpatrick, and Judithanne V. Scourfield, 2000, “Panacea or Palliative? An Analysis of the National Police Corps Program,” Stewart S. Nagel, ed., Handbook of Global Legal Policy, Marcel Dekker, 429-445.

SELECT ACADEMIC AWARDS, HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS

2023 Faculty Associate, Center for Latino/a and American Politics Research, Arizona State University

2019    Virtues of Exit selected for Visual Bibliography, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Arizona State University

2019-2023    Recovering Truth, Faculty Fellow, Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict, Arizona State University 

2019       Moral Capital Development, Faculty Fellow, Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics, Arizona State University

2005-2006   Institute for Advanced Study, Visitor                                               

2005-2006   Law and Public Affairs, Princeton University, Visitor           

1992 Phi Beta Kappa, Mount Holyoke College

TEACHING AWARDS

2023 Zebulon Pearce Teaching Award, The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (the largest college at ASU), Arizona State University

2022 Michael Mitchell Teaching Award, School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University

2012      Tronstein Award for Pedagogic Excellence, University of Michigan