David W. McIvor received his BA in Political Science at Western Washington University and his MA and Ph.D. in Political Science from Duke University. His primary research interests are in contemporary political theory and democratic theory with a particular focus on critical theory psychoanalytic theory and environmental theory and practice. He is the author of Mourning in America (Cornell, 2016) and the co-author of Earthborn Democracy (Columbia, 2024). Dr. McIvor has published articles in a variety of scholarly journals including Political Theory, Democratic Theory, The James Baldwin Review, Constellations, Polity, and Contemporary Political Theory.