Rafael Khachaturian

Rafael Khachaturian is a lecturer in political science in the University of Pennsylvania’s Critical Writing Program. His research focusing on the relationship between state power, theories of democracy, and practices of knowledge production has been published in journals such as Political Research Quarterly, Contemporary Political Theory, and Polity. His dissertation, “Discipline, Knowledge, and Critique: Marxist Theory and the Revival of the State in American Political Science, 1968-1989,” received the 2018 Stephen E. Bronner Award from the New Political Science section of the American Political Science Association. He is currently writing a book on knowledge creation about the state in postwar US political science.