Professor Maxwell wins multiple awards
Professor Lida Maxwell has earned honorable mention for the APSA Easton Award for her book Insurgent Truth: Chelsea Manning and the Politics of Outsider Truth-Telling.
And she has also won the Contemporary Political Theory Annual Prize for 2020 for her article, “The politics and gender of truth-telling in Foucault’s lectures on parrhesia,” in Contemporary Political Theory, Volume 18, Number 1 (2019), pp. 22-42.
Part of the citation for the award reads: “Maxwell brilliantly brings together different ages of political theory, making them relevant beyond their immediate concerns in a number of ways: she explores the subtle negotiations that underlie truth-telling in the shadow of power, thus illuminating the process by which one’s truth comes to count and one’s identity as a truth teller is established. And, drawing on the words of ancient tragedians (but also contemporary punk rock singers!), she exposes the gendered dimensions of the determination of which truth, and which truth-teller, counts.”