research overview
- Michaele Ferguson is Associate Professor of Political Science, a President’s Teaching Scholar, and Faculty Director of the Social Justice Scholars at the University of Colorado at Boulder where she focuses on Political Theory and Feminist Studies. She is the author of Sharing Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2012), co-editor with Lori J. Marso of W Stands for Women: How the George W. Bush Presidency Shaped a New Politics of Gender (Duke University Press, 2007), and co-editor with Andrew Valls of Iris Marion Young: Gender, Justice, and the Politics of Difference (Routledge, 2022). She has written numerous articles on feminist and democratic theory, including most recently “A Picture Held Us Captive: Simon Stow’s Referential Theory of Black Patriotism” (Theory & Event 2025) and most timely “Trump is a Feminist, and Other Cautionary Tales for Our Neoliberal Age” (from 2017). She is currently working on a book on feminist activism, Organizing Feminism: Retrieving the Lost Art of Politics from Feminist Activism, 1966-1972, and developing a role-playing game on the Paris Commune. She is a Consulting Editor for Contemporary Political Theory, and the Special Envoy for the Reacting Consortium.
