Professor Jennet Kirkpatrick
About
Jennet Kirkpatrick is Professor of Political Science in the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University. Her research and teaching center on political theory, with particular interests in resistance, democratic practice, and feminist thought. She is the author of The Virtues of Exit: On Resistance and Quitting in Politics (University of North Carolina Press, 2017) and Uncivil Disobedience: Studies in Violence and Democratic Politics (Princeton University Press, 2008). Her recent work explores feminist theories of disobedience and the affective dimensions of political hope and protest in Latin America.
Kirkpatrick’s scholarship has appeared in journals such as American Journal of Political Science, Political Theory, Contemporary Political Theory, and American Political Thought. A recipient of multiple teaching awards, including the Zebulon Pearce College-wide Teaching Award, she is also coauthor of the twelfth editions of Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal and Ideals and Ideologies (Routledge, 2025).
Professor Kirkpatrick can be reached at jennetk@asu.edu.