Hadass Silver

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Ph.D. (2023) in Political Theory

Hadass Silver is a Teaching Transfer Visiting Faculty Fellow with the McGraw Center at Princeton University. During the 2023-2024 academic year, she will teach at Mercer County Community College and advise students interested in transferring to four-year institutions.

Silver received her Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania in the summer of 2023. While finishing her doctorate, she also served as an Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy Fellow. As a political theorist and Americanist, Silver employs the interdisciplinary traditions of critical theory and pragmatism. Her research interests include race and class in the United States, American political thought, German political thought, and political epistemologies. Uncovering and evaluating reactionary tenets and consequences of apparently progressive ideologies unites Silver’s research agenda. In fall 2022, American Political Thought published Silver’s article “Inventing ‘White Privilege’: Pseudo-Progressivism in American Political Discourse,” and she is currently turning her dissertation—Utopian-Antiracism in the United States: The Pseudo-Progressivism of White Privilege Discourse—into a book manuscript.

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