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Jasper Friedrich is a DPhil candidate in Political Theory at the University of Oxford, affiliated with Corpus Christi College and the Department of Politics and International Relations. He holds a Teaching Associate role at the Blavatnik School of Government. His research focuses on the politics of emotions and mental health, post-conflict reconciliation, and immanent critique, drawing on critical theory, continental philosophy, and feminist thought. He will assume a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowship at Nuffield College starting September 2025.
Education: MSc in Political Theory Research (Harris Manchester College, Oxford), BSc in International Relations and Linguistics (University of Aberdeen). Awards include the Clarendon Scholarship, Corpus Christi–A. E. Haigh Scholarship, and Royal Institute of Philosophy's Jacobsen Studentship.
Research interests span political emotions, mental health politics, and theories of immanent critique. He has published peer-reviewed articles in Hypatia, Political Theory, and Foucault Studies, exploring topics like anger as resistance, state apologies, and the intersection of depression and critique. His doctoral thesis, The Miserable is Political, examines how emotions can drive resistance to injustice through a feminist critical theory lens.
Teaching: Undergraduate tutorials in political theory and critical theory across Oxford colleges; graduate seminars in ethics and public policy at the Blavatnik School. Grants include the Oxford-trygfonden Scholarship for his MSc.
Professional Activities: Presentations at conferences such as the European Philosophical Society, Nuffield Political Theory Workshop, and Uehiro Graduate Student Conference. Active in academic networks like the Berlin Critical Theory Summer School and the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs.
