JanaLee Cherneski (she / her)
From 2013-2015 I was a Departmental Lecturer in Political Theory in Oxford’s Department of Politics and International Relations. During this time, I lectured, tutored, supervised, and examined undergraduate and graduate students in Oxford’s three subfields of political theory: analytic political theory, continental political theory, and the history of political thought. At the same time, I helped the Rhodes Scholarship Trust launch the Character, Service and Leadership Program. A large part of this program, devoted to the practical cultivation and exploration of ethics and theories of justice, was designed to bring political theory’s perennial questions and focus on social justice to the diverse group of scientists, social scientists, and humanities scholars that comprise the Rhodes community.
At the end of the 2015 term I paused my formal role in academia to take up a post as Senior Advisor to the Rhodes Trust, and Founding Director of the Leading Lives program, a bespoke leadership program I designed as a partnership between the Rhodes Trust and the Schwarzman Scholarship in Beijing. For the past five years I have been doing the work of applied political theory: conceptualizing and building practical programs focused on values-based leadership and character education for communities defined by deep diversity.
I continue to direct the Leading Lives Program for Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University while also teaching classes on social theory and social impact at NYU Stern School of Business, and at NYU Steindhardt in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication.
My doctoral dissertation focused on the political thinking of Joseph Schumpeter. It employed various practices of intellectual history and the analysis of ideologies to explore the rich and rarely-discussed intellectual connections between Schumpeter and prominent intellectuals such as Carl Schmitt, Max Weber, Friedrich von Hayek and John Maynard Keynes.
My current research project is a book entitled Financialized: Capitalism, Finance and Democracy. Built around a series of case-studies and key historical moments this book explores the ethical implications and social consequences of various financial technologies (and ways of thinking) as they have been utilized throughout a history of racialized capitalism. The material for this book is reflected in the courses I have been teaching at NYU, both my course in Business and Society at Stern, and a course I teach at NYU Steinhardt titled Media and the Culture of Money. The latter course specifically tracks the growth of racialized capitalism from the eighteenth Century to the present by exploring the ideologies and practices of colonialism and political economy.
At the end of the 2015 term I paused my formal role in academia to take up a post as Senior Advisor to the Rhodes Trust, and Founding Director of the Leading Lives program, a bespoke leadership program I designed as a partnership between the Rhodes Trust and the Schwarzman Scholarship in Beijing. For the past five years I have been doing the work of applied political theory: conceptualizing and building practical programs focused on values-based leadership and character education for communities defined by deep diversity.
I continue to direct the Leading Lives Program for Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University while also teaching classes on social theory and social impact at NYU Stern School of Business, and at NYU Steindhardt in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication.
My doctoral dissertation focused on the political thinking of Joseph Schumpeter. It employed various practices of intellectual history and the analysis of ideologies to explore the rich and rarely-discussed intellectual connections between Schumpeter and prominent intellectuals such as Carl Schmitt, Max Weber, Friedrich von Hayek and John Maynard Keynes.
My current research project is a book entitled Financialized: Capitalism, Finance and Democracy. Built around a series of case-studies and key historical moments this book explores the ethical implications and social consequences of various financial technologies (and ways of thinking) as they have been utilized throughout a history of racialized capitalism. The material for this book is reflected in the courses I have been teaching at NYU, both my course in Business and Society at Stern, and a course I teach at NYU Steinhardt titled Media and the Culture of Money. The latter course specifically tracks the growth of racialized capitalism from the eighteenth Century to the present by exploring the ideologies and practices of colonialism and political economy.
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A joint symposium between the Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA) and the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE)
May 28, 2017
A joint symposium between the Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA) and the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE)
May 28, 2017