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Senior Lecturer in Political Theory, University of Birmingham

Richard Shorten is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Birmingham, UK. His research focuses on the history of modern political ideas, in particular connection with violence and injury. He is author of The Ideology of Political Reactionaries (Routledge, 2021), and Modernism and Totalitarianism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).

Experience

  • –present
    Senior Lecturer in Political Theory, University of Birmingham

Education

  • 2004 
    University of Birmingham, PhD Political Science