Ming Kit Wong

I am a DPhil student in Political Theory focusing on postwar 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.

Alongside my academic work, I currently serve as Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Political Review, an Oxford-based publication covering current affairs, political theory, and international relations.

Research

My research explores the political thought and intellectual history of the twentieth century and contemporary period.

In my current project, I aim both to reconsider postwar 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.

Teaching

I offer to teach papers in both History and Politics:

• Theories of the State

• Political Thought: Plato to Rousseau

• Political Thought: Bentham to Weber

• Political and Social Thought in the Age of Enlightenment