Clarkson University President Tony Collins has announced that Christopher C. Robinson has been promoted from associate professor to full professor of political theory and public law in the Department of Humanities & Social Sciences in the School of Arts & Sciences.
Robinson has been a faculty member in the department since 1998. He received his Ph.D. from SUNY Albany, his M.A. from SUNY Albany and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and his B.A. from Siena College, all in political science. His scholarly work has focused on political and legal theory in the contemporary era, with particular focus on language and the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
In 2009, Robinson’s book, Wittgenstein and Political Theory: The View from Somewhere, was published by Edinburgh and Columbia University Press. This study was the first comprehensive examination of Wittgenstein’s philosophy by a political theorist in almost 40 years. It received significant scholarly attention in both Europe and the United States. In 2017, Robinson came out with an edited volume composed of works by the noted political theorist John G. Gunnell.
More recently, Robinson has embarked on two new projects. The first is a book length manuscript, Green Abolitionism: Toward a Planetary Political Theory, which examines the implications of arguments pertaining to the unsustainability of economic growth and impending ecological catastrophe for democratic theory. The second project is a study of the relationship between literature and political theory.
Robinson teaches an array of courses in political theory, American politics, and public law, and is co-advisor to the university’s Law and Society Program. For twenty years, Robinson has taught in the HEOP Summer Pre-freshman Experience and has engaged in various diversity initiatives on campus.
For more than eight years, Robinson was the co-host of North Country Public Radio’s “Readers and Writers on the Air.” In this capacity he helped bring the voices and thoughts of some of the world’s most important writer’s to the region, while also publicizing the scholarly and literary contributions of local faculty and writers.
Robinson is married to Sunhee Sohn-Robinson. She is a well-known healthcare provider in the region and is beloved by her patients.
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