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Nomi Claire Lazar

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Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

I'm a political theorist with an interdisciplinary background in law, politics, and philosophy. One stream of my work focuses on crisis government and states of emergency: my first book was 'States of Emergency in Liberal Democracies' (Cambridge, 2009/13). Other streams of research focus on political temporality, political rhetoric, and political legitimacy: these came together in my second book 'Out of Joint: Power, Crisis, and the Rhetoric of Time' (Yale, 2019). My current work also engages the role of pleasure in political thought, and I'm at work on a third book for a mass audience on apocalyptic politics.

Experience

  • 2021–present
    Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa
  • 2018–2021
    Associate dean, Yale-NUS College

Education

  • 2005 
    Yale, PhD
  • 1999 
    University College London, MA
  • 1998 
    University of Toronto, HonBA

Publications

  • 2019
    Out of Joint: Power Crisis and the Rhetoric of Time, Yale University Press
  • 2009
    States of Emergency in Liberal Democracies, Cambridge University Press