The Program in CC&E is pleased to welcome Dr. Romand Coles as our new McAllister Chair in Community, Culture, and Environment! 

An Associate Professor of Political Science, and Director of Graduate Studies at Duke University, Dr. Coles has taught political philosophy and specializes in continental political philosophy, critical theory, existential phenomenology, post-modernism, post-colonialism, Marxist thought, democratic theory, liberalism, and questions concerning multiculturalism. He is the author of Self/Power/Other: Political Theory and Dialogical Ethics, which examines the thought of Augustine, Foucault and Merleau-Ponty, and Rethinking Generosity: Critical Theory and the Politics of Caritas, which explores the work of Kant, Adorno, Habermas and others. His most recent book, Beyond Gated Politics: Reflections for the Possibility of Democracy, came out in August of 2005 and addresses civil society, social movements, democratic ethics and politics among diverse communities and traditions. He has numerous published essays in Political Theory, Polity, Theory Culture and Society, Modern Theology, American Political Science Review, Perspectives on Politics, Political Economy of the Good Society, Nepantla and edited volumes.

Dr. Coles holds a Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, a Master's Degree from Western Washington University, and a Bachelor of Science from Huxley College of Environmental Studies at Western Washington University.