Alex Cole

Dr. Alex Cole

Assistant Professor
Political Science

Office Location

Tahlequah
Wilson Hall 325
(918) 444-3506

Bio

A first generation college student, Alex Donovan Cole is a specialist in Political Theory and Comparative Politics. He focuses on questions of politics and literature, the connection between modernity and antiquity, ideology, and phenomenology. As an undergraduate, he completed a year of study at Regents Park College, Oxford University. He is the winner of LSUs 2019 Doctoral Research Fellowship and has conducted archival research in Lbeck and Berlin, Germany. His research has appeared or will appear on Routledge, German Politics and Society, Utopian Studies, and Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Thought.

He collects records and is a voracious listener of 60s and 70s pop and progressive rock music. He also enjoys film, food, and travel.

Education
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Courses Taught

Education:

PhD, Political Science, Louisiana State University, 2020
MA, Political Theory, Louisiana State University, 2015
BA, Political Science, Columbus State University, Summa cum laude, 2013
OtherVisiting Student, PPE, Regents Park College, Oxford University, 2012

He is currently preparing material for a second book on literary depictions of The Thirty Years War as political thought.

Book:
The Politics of Remembrance in the Novels of Gnter Grass. Routledge. November 2022.

Political Theory (Modern-Contemporary, Ideology, Politics and Literature)
Comparative Politics (Europe, Political Economy, Social Movements)
American Politics (Con Law, American Government)
Philosophy (Aesthetics, German Idealism)