Brian Walker
Undergraduate Vice Chair & Associate Professor
Department of Political Science - UC Los Angeles
Contact Info
Email: bwalker@polisci.ucla.edu
Location
UCLA Department of Political Science 4289 Bunche Hall, Box 951472
Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1472United States
About:
Brian Walker studied at McGill University (BA and MA) with Charles Taylor and James Tully where his research focused on critical theory (especially Nietzsche, Marx, Walter Benjamin and Foucault) and on multiculturalism. At Columbia University, during his Ph.D. studies, he shifted his focus to Anglo-American analytic political thinking (dissertation on Rawls and Habermas) and to an engagement with the history of United States political thinking.
Professor Walker's recent research has focused on comparative political theory, especially on the comparison of U. S. and Chinese political thinking.