Rate My Professor Jim Jose

Professor Jose's fields of research are political theory and political philosophy (35%), comparative government and politics (40%), and gender and politics (25%), with specializations in political ideas and their impact on everyday politics, theory and practice of governance including the governance state in contemporary and postcolonial contexts such as East Africa, history of feminist political thought particularly Anna Doyle Wheeler, feminist political theory, postcolonialism, public policy, and Australian politics. Notable publications include books *Biopolitics of the Subject: An Introduction to the Ideas of Michel Foucault* (1998), *Not So Strange Bedfellows: The Nexus of Politics and Religion in the 21st Century* (co-editor with Ruth Imre, 2013), and *Reoccupying the Political: Transforming and Transgressing Political Science* (co-author with Sara Motta, 2019); chapters such as 'Manning Up' with Pauline Hanson: Playing the Gender Card, Again (2019), Giving Voice to Feminist Political Theory: The Radical Discourse of Anna Doyle Wheeler and William Thompson (2016), and The Role of Traditional Authorities in the Promotion of Electoral Justice and Peacebuilding in Ghana (2023, co-author); and journal articles like Feminist Political Theory without Apology: Anna Doyle Wheeler, William Thompson, and the Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women (Hypatia, 2019) and Examining the Mediating Role of Ghana’s Customary Institutions in Resolving the 2012 Electoral Conflict (African Identities, 2022, co-author). He supervised 24 PhDs to completion between 2003 and 2021, received the Vice Chancellor's Award for Research Supervision Excellence from the Faculty of Business and Law in 2011 and Academic Leadership in Political Science from the Australian Political Studies Association in 2015, and holds memberships in the Australian Political Studies Association, International Political Science Association Australia, and Political Studies Association United Kingdom.