Jonathan Havercroft

Jonathan Havercroft is a professor and head of International Relations at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of the books Captives of Sovereignty (CUP, 2011) and Stanley Cavell’s Democratic Perfectionism (CUP, 2023). His essay “Why is there no just riot theory?” won the 2020 Brian Barry Prize for best essay in political science. He has held fellowships from the British Academy, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. He is the primary investigator on the 2023 British Academy Knowledge Frontiers Grant: “The Policing Protest Project: An Analysis of Public Assembly Rights and Anti-Riot Technology in the U.K., U.S.A., and Brazil.” His peer-reviewed articles have appeared in such journals as the British Journal of Political Science, Political Theory, International Studies Quarterly, and Constellations. He is the editor of the interdisciplinary journal Global Constitutionalism.