Jodi Dean
Biography
Jodi Dean is an associate professor of political science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
Jodi Dean is chair of the department of political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges inGeneva, NY. With Paul Passavant, she has recently edited, Empire's New Clothes: Reading Hardt and Negri (Routledge, 2003). Her books include Publicity's Secret: How Technoculture Capitalizes on Democracy and Aliens in
America: Conspiracy Cultures from Outerspace to Cyberspace, both published by Cornell University
Press.
A current research project is ‘We are Geneva’, a community media project that draws from disadvantaged people’s familiarity with cell phones to involve them in collaborative journalism on the web. Jodi Dean is co-editor (together wit Jon Anderson and Geert Lovink) of ‘Reformatting Politics’, a collection of work from the SSRC internet and civil society project. Books include: Solidarity of Strangers (1996), Aliens in America (1998), Publicity's Secret (2002). Dean has edited Feminism and the New Democracy (1997), Cultural Studies and Political Theory (2000), and with Paul A. Passavant, Empire's New Clothes: Reading Hardt and Negri. Also see her weblog and her homepage.
jdean@hws.edu