Jade Schiff

  • Assistant Professor of Politics

Areas of Study

Education

  • BA, University of Toronto, 2002
  • MA, University of Chicago, 2004
  • PhD, University of Chicago, 2010

Biography

Jade Schiff, assistant professor of politics, received a BA at the University of Toronto, and an MA and PhD at the University of Chicago. 

Schiff works at the intersections of political theory, international relations, phenomenology and literary criticism. Schiff’s primary research area is contemporary political theory, and emphasizes issues of suffering, political responsibility and redemption in local and global contexts.

Fall 2024

Why Oberlin? The Value(s) of a Liberal Arts Education — FYSP 196

Justice, Virtue, and the Good Life — POLT 231

Education for Politics: Discipline, Resistance and Virtue — POLT 333