Postdoctoral Fellow, 2006-08

Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow

Amit Ron is continuing for his second year as Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Ethics and the Public Sphere, a fellowship he holds in the Department of Political Science and the Centre for Ethics. Ron’s postdoctoral project studies democratic public deliberations in Israeli society during the time of the Oslo Peace Process and after its collapse, focusing on the ways in which public debates about negotiations with Palestinians led participants to more critical understanding of the power relations in their own society. The interest in the relationship between power and morality ties together Ron’s postdoctoral research with his dissertation, in which he argues that the excursion of central liberal political philosophers into political economy was in part motivated by their understanding of economic exchange as a site of manipulation and hidden forms of domination.

Ron recently completed a book manuscript, The Political in Political Economy: from Thomas Hobbes to John Rawls, and meanwhile has published articles in the Journal of Political Philosophy, European Journal of Political Theory, History of Political Thought, Polity, Philosophy and Social Criticism, and the Journal of Critical Realism. Ron has also presented his work at numerous international conferences, and was the lead organizer of the Centre’s Public Issues Forums on the Ontario Citizens’ Assembly for Electoral Reform in the 2006-07 academic year.

Ron received his B.A. from Tel-Aviv University and his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He has taught at the University of Michigan, at Gustavus Adolphus College, and here at the University of Toronto.