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Patrick Thaddeus Jackson is associate dean for curriculum and learning and professor of International Relations in the School of International Service at American University, having previously been associate dean for undergraduate education. Jackson's research interests include culture and agency, international relations theory, scientific methodology, the role of rhetoric in public life, civilizations in world politics, the sociology of academic knowledge, popular culture and international relations, and the formation of subjectivity both in the classroom and in the broader social sphere. He was formerly editor-in-chief of the Journal of International Relations and Development; he is currently series editor of the University of Michigan Press book series Configurations: Critical Studies of World Politics and co-editor of ISQ Online. Jackson previously taught at Columbia University and New York University. He holds a B.A. from James Madison College at Michigan State University and an M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University.