Kevin McGinnis
PhD Student Political Science, The Graduate Center, CUNY
MRes Politics with Arabic, SOAS, University of London; BA Government, Cornell University
Kevin McGinnis is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at The Graduate Center, City University of New York majoring in comparative politics. He is holder of a Bachelors degree in Government from Cornell University, a MRes degree in Politics with Arabic from SOAS, University of London, and a MPhil degree in Political Science from The Graduate Center, CUNY.
He is in Belfast for his PhD project, The Political-Economic Consequences of Employment-Generating Businesses in Belfast and Beirut. He is interested in issues of political violence, contentious politics, post-conflict and unequal development, politics of the modern Middle East, and normative political theory. His paper, Adorno, Red Army Faction, and Constituent Power: Sovereign Crime in Democracies, has been accepted for presentation at the 2024 conferences of the Midwest Political Science Association, Northeastern Political Science Association, and the American Political Science Association. He is also an adjunct lecturer at Baruch College, having taught classes in Introduction to US Politics, Politics of the Modern Middle East and North Africa, Introduction to Comparative Politics, and The United States in the Age of Globalization since Spring 2020.