Eric Goodfield is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the American University in Cairo.

Goodfield holds a double major BA in Philosophy and Social and  Political Thought, and an MA in Political Science from York University in  Toronto. He earned a PhD in Political Science at the New School for Social Research in New York in 2006.
 
Eric's prior university teaching experiences include Thailand, Kyrgyzstan and most  recently Armenia where he participated in the final years of the Civic Education Project as a visiting professor with Yerevan State University (Political Science and Philosophy) as well as Yerevan State Linguistic University after Valery Brusov.
 
His areas of expertise include the history of political theory and philosophy with special interest in the tension between political questions and philosophical problems, historical conceptualizations of the state as well as contemporary issues of comparative political theory.  His published articles include topics on Hegelian and Marxian thought and the new field of comparative political theory. He is currently working on a full-length book dealing with the relations of philosophy and politics through the works of G.W.F. Hegel.

Research Interests:

    * Political theory
    * History of philosophy
    * Conceptual foundations of the state in ancient and modern thought
    * Comparative political theory

Recent Publications:

“Books In-Progress: "The Sovereignty of the Metaphysical: Hegel and the Frontiers of Political Theory"

Eric Goodfield, “Humanism and Anti-Humanism in Taoist and Enlightenment Political Thought”  [forthcoming, Theoria]

Eric Goodfield, Angela Harutyunyan and Aras Ozgun, "Spectacle and Counter-Spectacle: The Political Economy of the 2009 Istanbul Biennial" (Forthcoming: Rethinking Marxism, Routledge).
 
Eric Goodfield and Angela Harutyunyan "Theorizing the Politics of Representation in Contemporary Art in Armenia" in Questioning Cultural Development: Cultural Production, Critique and Agency, ed. Malcolm Miles and Monica Degen. (New York: Autonomia, vol. 5). [forthcoming, June/July, 2010]
 
"The Sovereignty of the Metaphysical in Hegel's The Philosophy Of Right" The Review of Metaphysics, (Vol. 64, Issue. 4, June, 2009).”