Perry Zurn
Assistant Professor
Department of Philosophy and Religion
Degrees
PhD, Philosophy, DePaul University MA, Philosophy, Miami University
Bio
Perry Zurn is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at American University and Center for Curiosity Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. He researches in political philosophy, gender theory, and applied ethics. Zurn is writing a monograph theorizing curiosity as philosophical and political practice. He is the co-author of Curious Minds (under contract) and the co-editor of Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition (2015), Carceral Notebooks 12 (2017), Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (under contract), and Curiosity Studies (under contract). His work appears in Carceral Notebooks, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, philoSOPHIA, Radical Philosophy Review, and Zetesis.
