Loubna El Amine
Assistant Professor

- loubna.elamine@northwestern.edu
- Website
- Scott Hall 240
- Office Hours: Email Professor
Interests
Research Interest(s): Political Theory, Comparative Political Theory, Chinese Political Thought
Program Area(s): Political Theory
Biography
Loubna El Amine teaches political theory, with a particular focus on early Chinese political thought. 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. She holds a PhD in Politics from Princeton University and a BA in Political Studies from the American University of Beirut.
Book
- Classical Confucian Political Thought: A New Interpretation (Princeton University Press, 2015).
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- "Political Liberalism, Western History, and the Conjectural Non-West," Political Theory (June 2020).
- "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 (March 2016).
Book Chapters
- “The family-state analogy in the Mencius,” Oxford Handbook of Chinese Philosophy (forthcoming).
Awards
- Henry Luce Foundation/American Council for Learned Societies Program in China Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship, September 2017-August 2018.
- National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, September 2017-August 2018.