Education
He received a Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science from Harvard University in 1999 and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Philosophy from University of California, Berkeley in 1992.
He received a Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science from Harvard University in 1999 and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Philosophy from University of California, Berkeley in 1992.
His research interests include a range of issues in contemporary social and political theory. He has written and taught on subjects such as action and responsibility, agency, theories of democracy, gender and sexuality, and the role of affect in politics, as well as on figures such as Hegel, Marx, Hannah Arendt, Habermas, and Aristotle. He is currently working on the first book-length study of Arendt"s The Human Condition.
Markell also serves as the co-director of the University of Chicago Political Theory Workshop, an Editorial Council member of Constellations, and a member of the Editorial Collective of Public Culture.