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Emma Stone Mackinnon is an Assistant Professor in the History of Modern Political Thought at the University of Cambridge's Faculty of History and an Official Fellow at Emmanuel College. At Emmanuel, she serves as a Director of Studies for students in History and Politics and History and Modern Languages joint courses, and as a Tutor and Financial Tutor.
Dr Stone Mackinnon's academic journey began with undergraduate studies at Harvard in Social Studies, followed by professional experience in New York City and Washington, DC, working at a political communications firm and a social policy research organization. She earned her doctorate in Political Science from the University of Chicago before joining Emmanuel College as a Junior Research Fellow in 2017. In January 2020, she assumed her current position as Assistant Professor in the History Faculty.
Her research focuses on contemporary political theory and the history of political thought, with particular emphasis on histories of human rights and humanitarianism, anticolonialism, international political thought, and the relationship between history and politics. Her current book projects examine the legacies of eighteenth-century French and American rights declarations in mid-twentieth century politics of race and empire, with specific attention to American 'hypocrisy' debates regarding race and rights, and struggles over French imperialism in Algeria.
Dr Stone Mackinnon's scholarly contributions have been published in leading journals such as Political Theory and Humanity, and in significant edited volumes including Time, History, and Political Thought (CUP 2023), The Blackwell Companion to Arthur Danto (Wiley Blackwell 2022), and Contingency in the Course of International Law (OUP 2021). Her PhD dissertation, 'Imperial Promises: The Contested Politics of Human Rights in the Twentieth Century', was awarded the 2018 Richard Saller Dissertation Prize by the University of Chicago Social Sciences Division.
At Cambridge, she lectures and co-convenes 'Political Philosophy and the History of Political Thought Since c. 1890', supervises multiple papers including 'The Modern State and its Alternatives' and 'The History of Political Thought from c.1700 to c.1890', and mentors PhD students in History and MPhil students in Political Thought and Intellectual History.
