Political Science

Chun-Tak is a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in political theory. His dissertation examines Judith Shklar’s claim that “the Cold War disturbed the Civil War.” It explores how the postwar recanonization of liberalism in opposition to totalitarianism recast narratives of American peoplehood and theories of legal institutions. In addition to Shklar, his primary interlocutors include Hannah Arendt and James Baldwin.

Chun-Tak earned his B.A. with honors in political science from Amherst College in 2021, including a year abroad at New College, Oxford, where he studied philosophy. After graduating, he spent a year at Bard College Berlin.