{"id":3657,"date":"2020-08-12T12:00:49","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T16:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/lisa-r-gilson\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T04:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T08:08:13","slug":"lisa-r-gilson","status":"publish","type":"faculty-profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/lisa-r-gilson\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisa R. Gilson"},"content":{"rendered":"

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B.A., Tufts University; M.A. and Ph.D., Yale University<\/p>\n

Lisa Gilson is an Assistant Professor of Politics at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College, specializing in political theory. Her work focuses on political reaction which rejects institutional paths toward change, from abolitionist movements to contemporary far-right groups. She is currently working on a book about how we might respond to the recent resurgence of romantic political reaction in the United States. Lisa\u2019s work has been published in the American Political Science Review<\/em>, Political Research Quarterly<\/em>, American Political Thought <\/em>and Perspectives on Politics<\/em>. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University, and prior to her arrival at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard. At ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, Lisa teaches courses on social movements, Black political thought, literature and politics, and democratic theory more broadly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1299,"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-3657","faculty-profile","type-faculty-profile","status-publish","hentry","expertise-contemporary-political-theory","expertise-history-of-political-thought","expertise-political-theory","expertise-specific-american-political-thought","expertise-specific-democratic-theory","expertise-specific-literature-and-politics","expertise-specific-social-movements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/3657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/faculty-profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1299"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/3657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6958,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/3657\/revisions\/6958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}