Hampshire College

Falguni A. Sheth holds a B.A. in Rhetoric and minor in South Asian Studies from UC Berkeley, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research. She works in the areas of continental philosophy, political philosophy and legal theory, critical race theory and philosophy of race, post-colonial, theory, and sub-altern and gender studies.

Professor Sheth has published numerous articles and two books, Race, Liberalism, and Economics(coedited, U. Michigan Press, 2004) and Toward a Political Philosophy of Race(SUNY Press, 2009). Her most recent book argues that racial divisions are fundamental to polities, and argues this point through the examples by exploring the situation of Muslims and Arabs, the caste system, the practice of veiling, and the history of liberalism.

Professor Sheth's current research is in several areas: hybrid subjectivity and race; Foucault’s biopolitics in the context of legal subjectivity; the emergence and legal construction of Punjabi-Mexicans at the turn of the 20th century; and the metaphysics of misrecognition. Sheth has served on the Immigrant Rights Commission of San Francisco and Hampshire College's Board of Trustees, and is an organizer of the California Roundtable for Philosophy and Race.



For more information, visit her website: http://helios.hampshire.edu/~fasHA

Affiliations
Law Program
School of Social Science
School of Social Science

Recent Courses
Race: The Adventures of a Concept (Spring 2010)
Citizenship, Freedom, and the Good Life (Spring 2010)
Sovereignty and Political Power, and Recognition (Fall 2009)
History of Political Philosophy: Politics Recognition and Exclusion (Fall 2009)