政治学哲学博士-政治理论

在范德比尔特（Vanderbilt）进行政治理论研究生研究的三个主要目标是：对学生进行政治思想史的广泛教育；帮助学生发展他们所选择的特定理论家的思想的专门知识；以及对学生进行本领域当代辩论的培训。我们在这三个领域的教师工作，并致力于帮助学生制定严格的学习计划，将所有这三个组成部分整合在一起，以制定研究议程，以探讨与政治理论和实践有关的核心问题。
The political theory subfield of the Vanderbilt Political Science department specializes in democratic puzzles, specifically those related to invisibility. Our scholarship complements work done in other subfields on race, ethnicity, gender, immigration, and other group-based politics to the extent that our colleagues understand these as puzzles of democracy and governance.<br><br>Graduate study in political theory at Vanderbilt has three major aims: to educate students broadly in the history of political thought, to help students develop expertise in the thought of particular theorists of their choosing, and to train students in contemporary debates in our field. Our faculty work in all three areas and are committed to helping students craft rigorous plans of study that integrate all three components in the interest of developing a research agenda that speaks to the core problems and questions that animate political theory and practice.<br><br>The particular strengths of our faculty include early modern and modern political thought, political economy, contemporary theories of justice and human rights, and feminist social and political theory. We embrace and support a range of methodological approaches to the study of political theory.