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John Sanbonmatsu

Associate Professor

Office: Salisbury Laboratories, 23
Phone: +1-508-831-5226
Fax: +1-508-831-5932
js@wpi.edu

Related Information

• Environmental Studies Program

Educational Background

• B.A., Hampshire College, 1984
• Ph.D., University of California at Santa Cruz, 2000

Research & Teaching Interests

Political philosophy; critical theory (Marxism, feminism, ecological theory); ethics and animal rights; existentialism (especially phenomenology).

IQP Advising Interests

Environmental social movements, energy politics, energy policy, impact of new technologies, ethical issues, sexism in medical care, Critiques of science and technology, social cost & social change, science & society studies, computers & education

Recent Publications

• "'Blood and Soil': Lierre Keith, Michael Pollan, and the Trouble with Locavore Politics," http://www.zcommunications.org/blood-and-soil-lierre-keith-michael-pollan-and-the-trouble-with-locavore-politics-by-john-sanbonmatsu

• "We're Plugged in--But Checked Out," Op-Ed in The Christian Science Monitor, June 3, 2011 http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2011/0603/We-re-plugged-in-but-checked-out

• "Why the Strauss-Kahn Arrest and French Reaction Shouldn't Surprise Us," The Christian Science Monitor, May 20, 2011 http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2011/0520/Why-Strauss-Kahn-arrest-and-French-reaction-shouldn-t-surprise-us

• J. Sanbonmatsu, ed., Critical Theory and Animal Liberation (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2011).  

• “The Crisis of the Global Left:  Part One,” Znet, Sept. 20, 2009.

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