Rate My Professor Callum Ingram

Callum Ingram is an Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Nevada, Reno. He holds a Ph.D. in Government from the University of Virginia (2015), an M.A. in Government from the University of Virginia (2011), and a B.A. in Politics from Oberlin College (2007). Ingram's research and teaching focus on the ethics of social and revolutionary movements, democratic theory, American political thought, and environmental politics. He is the author of the forthcoming book Transformative Activism in a World of Structural Oppression (Edinburgh University Press, 2025) and is working on a manuscript titled Dissent in a World of Structural Oppression, which analyzes how discourses of structural oppression reshape diagnoses of group-based injustice and the ethics of dissent in liberal democracies. His publications include "The Reader and the Redeemer: Constituting Agency in the Political Thought of John Dewey and Hannah Arendt" in Contemporary Pragmatism (2015), "Building between Past and Future: Nostalgia, Historical Materialism, and the Architecture of Memory in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor" in Philosophy & Social Criticism (2015), and the forthcoming article "The Egalitarian Conditions of Just Happiness: A Rawlsian Approach to Pluralistic Well-Being" in Political Research Quarterly (2025). Ingram's work has been supported by funding from the Clay Endowment for the Humanities, the University of Virginia, and the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.

Ingram teaches a range of courses in political theory, including Introduction to Political Theory, Introduction to American Politics, Environmental Political Theory, American Constitutional Change, Identity Politics, Early American Political Thought, Modern Political Theory, Cities & Social Movements, and Public Space in a Global Perspective. He has served as Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Political Science Department and accompanied students to the German Marshall Fund's Brussels Forum. As a political theorist within Political Science, Ingram contributes to scholarly conversations on democratic practices, social movements, and environmental politics at the University of Nevada, Reno.