We are thrilled to welcome four new faculty fellows to the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory: Anton Ford, Ghenwa Hayek, Daniel Morgan, and Gabriel Winant (pictured above, from left). Our collective now comprises twenty-four fellows from across the Social Sciences and Humanities, enabling imaginative, interdisciplinary collaborations that consider how we theorize the present.
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Anton Ford is an Associate Professor in Philosophy and a Deputy Dean of the Humanities Division. His research and teaching interests primarily lie within the realm of Practical Philosophy, broadly including Action Theory, Ethics, and Political Philosophy as well as figures such as Anscombe, Aristotle, and Marx.
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Ghenwa Hayek is an Associate Professor of Modern Arabic Literature, focusing on literature and culture from the late nineteenth century to the present. She investigates the entangled relationships between literary and cultural production, space and place, and identity formation in the modern Arab Middle East, specifically Lebanon.
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Daniel Morgan’s work focuses largely on the intersection between cinema and aesthetics. He has written extensively on André Bazin and other figures within the history of film theory, on contemporary trends in film and media theory, and on the broader implications posed by considerations of film form.
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Gabriel Winant is a historian of the social structures of inequality in modern American capitalism. He is broadly interested in transformations in the social division of labor and the making and management of social difference through this process. His work approaches capitalism as an expansive social order—not confined to the market alone but rather structurally composed of multiple, heterogeneous spheres.