Michael Uhall is a recent Ph.D. graduate from the Political Science Department, where he studied with Samantha Frost and others. His research addresses a range of topics in political theory and philosophy, including conceptual engineering, new materialism, political ecology, and philosophical anthropology. He is especially interested in ontological questions about how different concepts of nature affect the apprehension of what is political in the first place, and he argues throughout his work that we are failing to navigate the ecological crisis effectively, in no small part because our conceptual and political vocabularies are insufficient to the task. He and his partner have a rescue dog named Morrigan, who resembles the world’s tiniest coyote.

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