Dawn Herrera

Research Scholar

Dawn Herrera is a theorist whose teaching and writing are dedicated to the invigoration of the political imaginary. She holds a Ph.D. from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, where she completed a dissertation on non-sovereign conceptions of freedom in the work of Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault. Related research interests include the spatiality and temporality of politics, play, metaphor, violence, and the critique of political economy. Her current book project traces the genealogy of the nation-state in Foucault’s Collège de France lectures