Alison Parks

Assistant Professor of Political Science

Alison Parks is an Assistant Professor of Political Theory at Stetson University. They joined the faculty in the fall of 2023 after eight years of teaching at the City University of New York. 

  • PhD, Political Science with a Certificate in Women's Studies at the Graduate Center, CUNY. 

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Areas of Expertise

  • Biopolitics
  • Contemporary Political Theory
  • Queer and Feminist political thought

Course Sampling

  • Political Ideologies
  • Western Political Thought: Classical to Modern
  • Political Theories of Resistance

  • Current research project titled Beyond Pathology: Specters of Suicidality in the Queer Community engages the thinkers Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze to contextualize the relationship between the queer community and suicide.