Chas. Phillips is Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Political Science.

Phillips studies and teaches political theory. His paradigm for both teaching and research is oriented around an interdisciplinary approach to political theory, in which theory influences and is influenced by other subfields, practices, disciplines, methods, and experiences. His research is centered around the intersection of global violence—the ways in which violence and vulnerabilities are coded, conditioned, obscured, and perpetuated at the local and global levels—and democratic theory—conceptualizations of practices that configure and refigure public life at multiple registers.

His recent single-author publications use the work of Gilles Deleuze (and a minor tradition of thinkers preceding him) to disrupt and critique traditional political understandings of contemporary issues. In two related pieces, he analyzes aggressive policing tactics and global climate change, respectively, as related to a particular and static image of the human rather than as a mode of radical becoming.

Phillips is the recipient of multiple teaching awards at both Johns Hopkins University and elsewhere.

Phillips' research is centered around the intersection of global violence—the ways in which violence and vulnerabilities are coded, conditioned, obscured, and perpetuated at the local and global levels—and democratic theory—conceptualizations of practices that configure and refigure public life at multiple registers.

Most recently, Chas. Phillips has taught:

• Introduction to Western Political Theory
• Democratic Political Theory
• Theories of Global Violence
• Nature, Civilization, Climate (graduate seminar co-taught with William Connolly)

Recent articles:

• “Becoming the Apocalypse: Global Climate Change and a Tragic Swerve in Deleuze’s Logic of Sense.” Spring 2022. Deleuze and Guattari Studies, 15(4).
• “Human without Image: Deleuzian Critique beyond the Neighbourhood Effect.” Spring 2020. Deleuze and Guattari Studies, 14(1).