Briana McGinnis
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Education
Ph.D. in Government, Georgetown University
B.A. in Political Science, University of Wisconsin
Research Interests
Political theory, specializing in inclusion and exclusion, associations, political community, exile, criminalization, and punishment. Public law: the First Amendment, civil liberties, immigration. Additional interests in American political development, liberalism, democratic theory, law and society, and radical political theory
Courses Taught
POLI 150: Introduction to Political Thought
POLI 321: Civil Liberties
POLI 381: Democracy and Discipline
POLI 399: Special Topics/Politics of Ideas - Exile
POLI 405: Capstone Seminar - Anarchy
Selected Publications
“Citizens with Felony Convictions in the Jury Box: A Peer-Judgment Argument.” Co-authored with Andrei Poama (University of Leiden). American Journal of Political Science, forthcoming.
“Prison Education, Democracy, and Solidarity.” With Kaitlyn Victoria (College of Charleston undergraduate). Forthcoming in Mass Incarceration in the 21st Century: Realities and Reflections. Routledge, 2023. Edited by Addrain Conyers, Vanessa Lynn, and Margaret Leigey.
“American Citizenship and State Abandonment.” In Minority Rights and Liberal Democratic Insecurities: The Challenge of Unstable Orders. Edited by Anna-Mária Bíro and Dwight Newman. London: Routledge, 2023. 217-232.
“Exile in America: Political Expulsion and the Limits of Liberal Citizenship.” Journal of Politics, 2021.
“Exile as an Alternative to Incarceration.” In Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy: Rethinking Punishment in the Era of Mass Incarceration. Edited by Chris W. Suprenant. New York: Routledge, 2018. 297-293.
“Beyond Disenfranchisement: Collateral Consequences and Equal Citizenship.” Politics, Groups, and Identities, 2017.