Perry Zurn Assistant Professor Philosophy & Religion

Additional Positions at AU: Director of Undergraduate Studies in Philosophy; Affiliate Faculty, Honors Program; Faculty Fellow, Complex Problems
Degrees: PhD, Philosophy, DePaul University MA, Philosophy, Miami University
Languages Spoken: English, French, Latin
Bio: Perry Zurn is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at American University. A political philosopher, Zurn studies forces and histories of change, focusing on the power of curiosity, political resistance, and transgender life. He is the author of Curiosity and Power: The Politics of Inquiry (2021) and the co-author of Curious Minds (MIT Press, under contract). He is also the co-editor of Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition (2016), Carceral Notebooks 12 (2017), Curiosity Studies: A New Ecology of Knowledge (2020), and Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group, 1970-1980 (2021). He is currently at work on two new monographs: one on the poetics of transgender activism and another on the philosophy of movement.

See Also: Dr. Zurn's website; Curiosity and Power: The Politics of Inquiry, paperback; Curiosity Studies, open access; "Curiosity is Political," podcast episode; Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group, paperback
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