Loubna El Amine is a Lecturer in Political Theory in the Department of Political Economy. Before King's College London, she was Assistant Professor (granted tenure in June 2024) in the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University and before that, Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Georgetown University and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University.

She holds a BA in Political Studies from the American University of Beirut and a PhD in Politics from Princeton University. Personal website: www.loubnaelamine.com.

Research interests

Loubna is a political theorist with specialisation in comparative political theory and the history of political thought, particularly classical Chinese political thought. She also has related interests in theories of the state, culture, and gender in contemporary political theory as they concern postcolonial societies.

Her first book, Classical Confucian Political Thought: A New Interpretation, was published in 2015 by Princeton University Press. She is currently working on a second book, tentatively titled Beyond Freedom and Slavery: Status and Membership in the Ancient Confucian Political Community (under contract with Oxford University Press). In support of her second book, she has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Henry Luce Foundation/American Council for Learned Societies.

Office hours

Monday: 13.00 – 14.00

Wednesday: 13.30 – 14.30

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Teaching

4SSPP101 Fundamentals of Politics Research

Latest publications

• “Women, rituals, and the domestic-political distinction in the Confucian Classics,” Political Theory 52: 1 (February 2024), pp.90-119.
• “The nation-state 1648-2148,” Political Theory 51:1 (February 2023) (50th anniversary special issue), pp.65-73.
• “The family-state analogy in the Mengzi,” Oxford Handbook of Chinese Philosophy, edited by Justin Tiwald (forthcoming).
• (With Kevin Mazur) “Thinking about groups in political science: A case for bringing the meso level back in,” Political Science Quarterly 137:2 (Summer 2022), pp.331-355.
• "Political Liberalism, Western History, and the Conjectural Non-West," Political Theory 49:2 (February 2021), 190-214.
• "On the Liberatory Potential of the Past: The Case of Non-Feudal China," Journal of World Philosophies 4:1 (June 2019).
• “Beyond East and West: A reorientation of political theory through the prism of modernity,” Perspectives on Politics 14:1 (March 2016).