Samuel Galloway
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Samuel R. Galloway, PhD, teaches courses in political theory and American politics. Dr. Galloway is also a member of the interdisciplinary Gender Studies and the Global Black Studies programs.
Their courses explore topics such as protest, media, biopolitics, law, cultural aesthetics, and ideology at the intersections of race, sexuality, gender, class, ability, and citizenship.
Dr. Galloway’s research examines questions of democracy, sovereignty, and solidarity in contemporary and canonical political thought and practice. They are currently completing their first book manuscript, Cruising Politics: Affect, Assemblage, Agonism, which offers a queer critical theoretical account of how 21st century American politics is being shaped by the fleeting, anonymous, and public affairs of agonistic democrats, from Anonymous hacktivism, to Critical Mass bicycle protests, to Green Wave contentious performances in Latin America.
Dr. Galloway has been consulted as a local expert, including for Westchester’s Channel 12 News.
For fun, they enjoy dancing, bicycling, hiking, birdwatching, and playing guitar.
More About Me
For more information about Professor Galloway, including their curriculum vitae, sample syllabi, more information about their research, and stand alone popular audience musings, please visit their website: https://samuelrgalloway.com.
Representative Courses
- Introduction to US Politics (POL1570)
- Intro to Political Theory (POL2110)
- Political Theory I: Plato to Machiavelli (POL2170)
- Political Theory II: Hobbes to the Present (POL2180)
- Politics and the Media (POL2210)
- America on Film (POL2610)
- Sex, Politics, Health (POL3045)
- America Constitutional Law (POL3050)
- Race, Gender, and the Law (POL3090)
- Political Protest and Ideology (POL3290)
- The Art of (Culture) War in American Politics (POL3530)
- The Literature of Political Violence (POL3580).
Publications
- “Queering Amor Mundi: Love, Loss, and Democratic Politics.” Theory & Event Volume 24, Number 3, July 2021, pp. 758-786. DOI: 10.1353/tae.2021.0042
- “Coaxing Ideology Critique Toward a Pedagogy of Unlearning: a Reparative Approach to a Paranoid Practice,” and “Introduction.” Contributions to a “Critical Exchange on Lauren Berlant’s Legacy in Contemporary Political Theory,” Contemporary Political Theory (2022).
- Cruising Politics: Affect, Assemblage, Agonism. (Book manuscript under review with Columbia University Press, “New Directions in Critical Theory” series.)