Timothy Kaufman-Osborn
Biographic Data
| ID | 1120216 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timothy Kaufman-Osborn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timothy |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaufman-Osborn |
| SIGNATURE | KAUFMAN-OSBORN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Whitman College |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-7819-7499 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Response to Critics The Autocratic Academy: Reconstituting Rule within America’s Universities
Our Editorial Experience at Politics & Gender, 2016–19
I, Mary Caputi, was humbled and honored to be offered the editorship of Politics & Gender, a position that I filled between 2016–19. With my hard-working associate editors Sun Young Kwak, Steve Gonzales, and Timothy Kaufman-Osborn, we strove to build upon the journal’s already strong reputation as an agenda-setting academic publication that offers cutting-edge scholarship in all areas of gender studies. Because the relationship between “politics …
Politics/Sense/Experience: A Pragmatic Inquiry into the Promise of Democracy
This book mobilizes the spirit of pragmatism to explore an issue central to modernity: the vitality of democracy in a technological age. In an unconventional way, Timothy Kaufman-Osborn weaves John Dewey's words with his own in order to address, among others, Plato, Aristotle, Locke, Descartes, Durkheim, Weber, Habermas, and Rorty. Like other works of pragmatic philosophy, Politics/Sense/Experience questions the alleged isolation of mind from exp…
Staying Tuned: LGBTQIA Politics in the Trump Era
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Disenchanted Professionals: The Politics of Faculty Governance in the Neoliberal Academy
The “corporatization” of the academy is often cited as a cause of the “de-professionalization” of the professoriate, and that in turn is cited as a cause of the faculty’s current disempowerment. The specifically modern conception of professionalism presupposed by these arguments occludes the deep implication of the academy in the generation and legitimation of specific configurations of power. This essay begins, accordingly, by elaborating this e…
Gender Trouble at Abu Ghraib
This essay explores the controversy spawned by the release, in April, 2004, of the photographs taken by U.S. military personnel at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad. Its particular concern is with photographs that depict American servicewomen engaged in various forms of abusive conduct against Iraqi prisoners. In its opening half, the essay examines and criticizes the responses to these photographs offered, first, by right-wing commentators and, s…
Activities and Appointments
The Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program contributes to the intellectual life of the campus by
Gender Trouble at Abu Ghraib
This essay explores the controversy spawned by the release, in April, 2004, of the photographs taken by U.S. military personnel at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad. Its particular concern is with photographs that depict American servicewomen engaged in various forms of abusive conduct against Iraqi prisoners. In its opening half, the essay examines and criticizes the responses to these photographs offered, first, by right-wing commentators and, s…
Disenchanted Professionals: The Politics of Faculty Governance in the Neoliberal Academy
The “corporatization” of the academy is often cited as a cause of the “de-professionalization” of the professoriate, and that in turn is cited as a cause of the faculty’s current disempowerment. The specifically modern conception of professionalism presupposed by these arguments occludes the deep implication of the academy in the generation and legitimation of specific configurations of power. This essay begins, accordingly, by elaborating this e…
Our Editorial Experience at Politics & Gender, 2016–19
I, Mary Caputi, was humbled and honored to be offered the editorship of Politics & Gender, a position that I filled between 2016–19. With my hard-working associate editors Sun Young Kwak, Steve Gonzales, and Timothy Kaufman-Osborn, we strove to build upon the journal’s already strong reputation as an agenda-setting academic publication that offers cutting-edge scholarship in all areas of gender studies. Because the relationship between “politics …
Activities and Appointments
The Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program contributes to the intellectual life of the campus by
Gender Trouble at Abu Ghraib
This essay explores the controversy spawned by the release, in April, 2004, of the photographs taken by U.S. military personnel at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad. Its particular concern is with photographs that depict American servicewomen engaged in various forms of abusive conduct against Iraqi prisoners. In its opening half, the essay examines and criticizes the responses to these photographs offered, first, by right-wing commentators and, s…
Disenchanted Professionals: The Politics of Faculty Governance in the Neoliberal Academy
The “corporatization” of the academy is often cited as a cause of the “de-professionalization” of the professoriate, and that in turn is cited as a cause of the faculty’s current disempowerment. The specifically modern conception of professionalism presupposed by these arguments occludes the deep implication of the academy in the generation and legitimation of specific configurations of power. This essay begins, accordingly, by elaborating this e…
Staying Tuned: LGBTQIA Politics in the Trump Era
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Politics/Sense/Experience: A Pragmatic Inquiry into the Promise of Democracy
This book mobilizes the spirit of pragmatism to explore an issue central to modernity: the vitality of democracy in a technological age. In an unconventional way, Timothy Kaufman-Osborn weaves John Dewey's words with his own in order to address, among others, Plato, Aristotle, Locke, Descartes, Durkheim, Weber, Habermas, and Rorty. Like other works of pragmatic philosophy, Politics/Sense/Experience questions the alleged isolation of mind from exp…
Response to Critics The Autocratic Academy: Reconstituting Rule within America’s Universities
Our Editorial Experience at Politics & Gender, 2016–19
I, Mary Caputi, was humbled and honored to be offered the editorship of Politics & Gender, a position that I filled between 2016–19. With my hard-working associate editors Sun Young Kwak, Steve Gonzales, and Timothy Kaufman-Osborn, we strove to build upon the journal’s already strong reputation as an agenda-setting academic publication that offers cutting-edge scholarship in all areas of gender studies. Because the relationship between “politics …
Politics (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works) · Academic freedom (1 works) · Academic Freedom and Politics (1 works)