Lucien Ferguson

Program Area(s): American Politics; Political Theory; Law and Politics
Regional Specialization(s): United States
Dissertation Title:
The Spirit of Caste: Recasting the History of Civil Rights
Dissertation Committee: Erin F. Delaney; Mary G. Dietz (Chair); Paul A. Gowder; Alvin Bernard Tillery, Jr.
Conference Presentation(s):
- “Anna Julia Cooper’s Anti-Caste Theory of Human Rights,” American Political Science Association, Montreal, CA, September 2022
- “Law, Rights, and Abolition: Contesting the Discursive Critique of Rights,” 14th International Critical Theory Conference of Rome, John Felice Rome Center of Loyola University, Rome, Italy, June 2022
- “Frederick Douglass Caste Theory of Racism,” Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, May 2022
- “Frederick Douglass and the Spirit of Caste,” Association for Political Theory, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Amherst, MA, November 2021
- “Frederick Douglass and the Spirit of Caste,” American Political Science Association, Seattle, WA, October 2021
- “Republicanism, Abstract Domination, and Slavery in the Americas,” The Venice World Multidisciplinary Conference on Republics and Republicanism, Venice International University, Venice, June 2021
- “The Politics of Anti-Caste: Rethinking the Political Limits of Equality Before the Law,” Midwest Political Science Association, April 2021
- Paper Response to Professor Ainsley Lesure, “Another World is Possible: Rereading Black Skin, White Masks Phenomenologically,” Graduate Student Political Theory Workshop, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, February 2021
- “The Spirit of Caste: Caste Critique and the Contestation of Racial Subjection in the United States,” Graduate Student Political Theory Workshop, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, February 2021
- “The Concept of Civil Rights in the 19th Century,” JD-PhD Seminar, Northwestern’s Pritzker School of Law, Chicago, IL, June 2020
- “From Love to Care: Reorienting to the World with Arendt’s Amor Mundi,” Graduate Student Political Theory Workshop, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, May 2019
- “The Care Crisis in Contemporary Political Theory,” Graduate Student Political
Theory Workshop at Northwestern University, October 2020 - “The Concept of Civil Rights in the 19th Century,” JD-PhD Seminar at Northwestern’s Pritzker School of Law, February 2020
Selected Publication(s):
- Lucien Ferguson “From Love to Care: Arendt’s Amor Mundi in the Ethical Turn” in Political Theory, July 2022 .
Honors and Award(s):
- University Fellowship, Northwestern University, 2022-2023
- Franke Fellow, Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, Northwestern University, 2021-2022
- Teaching Assistantship, Center for Legal Studies, Northwestern University, 2020-2021
- Associate Editor, Northwestern Journal of Human Rights, Pritzker School of Law, Northwestern University, 2020-2021
- Law School Scholarship, Northwestern University, 2019-2020
- Law School Scholarship, Pritzker School of Law, 2018-2019
- Law and Science Fellow, Pritzker School of Law, 2018-Present
- Minar Memorial Summer Award, Northwestern University, 2018
- Graduate Fellow in Legal Studies, Northwestern University, 2018-Present
- Teaching Assistantship, Department of Political Science, Northwestern University, 2017-2018
- University Fellowship, Northwestern University, 2016-2017
- John D. Lewis Memorial Prize for Work in Political Theory, Oberlin College, 2013
- John F. Oberlin Scholarship, Oberlin College, 2009-2013