Ruth Kinna

Ruth Kinna is a Professor of Political Theory at Loughborough University, specializing in anarchism, 19th-century socialist thought, and utopianism. She is co-editor of Anarchist Studies and leads the Anarchy Rules! research group. She holds a DPhil from Nuffield College, Oxford, funded by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). Her work emphasizes anarchist constitutionalism, mutual aid, and radical political alternatives.

Education: BA (1st class) in History and Politics from Queen Mary, University of London; DPhil in Political Theory from Oxford. Research is supported by grants from ESRC, ISRF, and the British Academy. Notable publications include The Government of No One (2019) and Kropotkin: Reviewing the Classical Anarchist Tradition (2016).

Awards include the ISRF Mid-Career Fellowship (2023-24) and ESRC Transformative Research Award (2016). She explores contemporary anarchism’s relevance to movements like Iceland’s crowd-sourced constitution and mutual aid networks during the pandemic. Active in public engagement through The Conversation, addressing anarchist contributions to democracy and social justice.