Political Theorist
& Historian

I am the Departmental Lecturer in Feminist Political Theory at the University of Oxford. Prior to coming to Oxford, I was a lecturer at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science at the Free University of Berlin.  I have previously written on topics in Democratic Theory, Early Modern Political History, Queer-Feminist Theory, Affect Studies, and Non-Human Political Theory.

I am currently writing a history of the rise of fraternity and sodomy as co-constitutive symbols, practices, and feelings of equality in Early Modern England. The book investigates how the English Revolution of 1688 gave rise to novel ideas and practices of gender and sexuality and shows how fears concerning sodomy and gender-nonconformity shaped modern understandings of equal male citizenship and democracy in Britain.

My research has appeared in journals such as Modern Intellectual History, Contemporary Political Theory, Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry, among others.

My scholarship has been supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada The Nicholson Center for British Studies, and The Pozen Family Center for Human Rights.

I am happy to collaborate with other academics, artists, and researchers.

Get in Touch

aylon.cohen@politics.ox.ac.uk