People

Ming Kit Wong

MA MPhil Cantab, MSc Oxon

Research Topic:

Postwar Liberal Anti-Utopian Utopianism
AFFILIATION
Political Theory Network
Political Theory
College
Magdalen College
Course
DPhil Politics
supervisor

I am a DPhil student in Political Theory focusing on anti-utopian liberal thought. My doctoral project is supervised by Professor David Leopold, and it is jointly funded by Magdalen College and the DPIR.

I have remained at Oxford to pursue the DPhil after completing the MSc in Political Theory Research under the supervision of Professor Teresa Bejan. I additionally hold an MPhil in Political Thought and Intellectual History from Cambridge, where I first read History as an undergraduate.

Research

In my current project, I aim both to reconsider twentieth-century liberal attitudes towards utopia and improve our understanding of contemporary anti-utopianism. I shall do so principally by examining the thought of Judith Shklar and Richard Rorty.

More broadly, I am keenly interested in methodological debates surrounding the study of intellectual history, as well as the relevance of historiography to contemporary politics.

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