Rate My Professor Jim Jose

Emeritus Professor Jim Jose, with degrees including a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Politics and Philosophy, a Master of Arts, and a PhD from the University of Adelaide, began his professional life as an apprentice electrician with the Department of Civil Aviation. He joined the University of Newcastle in May 2001 as a Senior Lecturer in Politics within the Newcastle Business School and retired in February 2021, upon which he was appointed Emeritus Professor of Politics. During his tenure, he held key leadership positions such as Head of the Politics Discipline from 2001 to 2008, Deputy Head of School from 2002 to 2007, Acting Head of School from 2007 to 2008, member of the University Senate from 2007 to 2009, Acting Head of the Tourism Discipline in Semester 2 2009, Assistant Dean of Research in the Faculty of Business & Law from July 2009 to December 2017 and July to December 2019, Deputy Head of Faculty from September 2015 to June 2016 and January to March 2017, and Head of the Discipline of Economics, Politics and International Relations from January to July 2018. He served on various faculty and school committees since 2001 and continues post-retirement research and higher degree student supervision.

Professor Jose's fields of research are political theory and political philosophy (35%), comparative government and politics (40%), and gender and politics (25%), with specializations in political ideas and their impact on everyday politics, theory and practice of governance including the governance state in contemporary and postcolonial contexts such as East Africa, history of feminist political thought particularly Anna Doyle Wheeler, feminist political theory, postcolonialism, public policy, and Australian politics. Notable publications include books *Biopolitics of the Subject: An Introduction to the Ideas of Michel Foucault* (1998), *Not So Strange Bedfellows: The Nexus of Politics and Religion in the 21st Century* (co-editor with Ruth Imre, 2013), and *Reoccupying the Political: Transforming and Transgressing Political Science* (co-author with Sara Motta, 2019); chapters such as 'Manning Up' with Pauline Hanson: Playing the Gender Card, Again (2019), Giving Voice to Feminist Political Theory: The Radical Discourse of Anna Doyle Wheeler and William Thompson (2016), and The Role of Traditional Authorities in the Promotion of Electoral Justice and Peacebuilding in Ghana (2023, co-author); and journal articles like Feminist Political Theory without Apology: Anna Doyle Wheeler, William Thompson, and the Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women (Hypatia, 2019) and Examining the Mediating Role of Ghana’s Customary Institutions in Resolving the 2012 Electoral Conflict (African Identities, 2022, co-author). He supervised 24 PhDs to completion between 2003 and 2021, received the Vice Chancellor's Award for Research Supervision Excellence from the Faculty of Business and Law in 2011 and Academic Leadership in Political Science from the Australian Political Studies Association in 2015, and holds memberships in the Australian Political Studies Association, International Political Science Association Australia, and Political Studies Association United Kingdom.