Justin Mueller

Lesley University

I am a political scientist and theorist whose research explores how our personal and collective perceptions of time shape our understanding, and particularly how and when these time-perceptions act as mechanisms for creating, reinforcing, or contesting social structures of inequality. I am especially interested right now in how our access to times—memories, hope, possible futures—is inequitably distributed in racist, sexist, and classist ways.

This framework extends to my teaching, where I am currently developing anti-racist political science pedagogical resources for and with other educators. Political science pedagogy can be a potent tool for either reinforcing injustices and inequities or challenging them. My pedagogical work is designed to offer invitations to disobedience, lenses for critically analyzing and questioning the world as it is, and constructive openings for imagining alternative possible futures free of systemic racism, inequities, domination, and violence.

Areas of Expertise

• Education
• Political Science
• Social Theory
• Political Theory

Methodology

• Qualitative Methods
• Critical Phenomenology