Associate Professor, Political Science and International Relations
- PhD, Brandeis University (2011)
- BA, James Madison College, Michigan State University (2004)
Timothy Wyman McCarty teaches political theory and his research focuses on democratic theory, theories of complicity & moral responsibility, the politics of taxation, and politics & literature.
He has published work on the idea of complicity in democratic politics, political thought in the work of Vladimir Nabokov, right-wing politics in America, and is co-editor with Sabine von Mering of Right-Wing Radicalism Today: Perspectives from Europe and the US (Routledge, 2013). He is currently at work on two book-length projects: one on the relationship between taxation and citizenship in democratic thought and practice; the other on the politics of complicity, tentatively titled The Tragedy of Complicity. In addition to these projects, he is researching political thought in the work of 20th century writers such as Bertolt Brecht and Robert Coover.