Riley Hannah Lewicki is a PhD student in philosophy at McGill University. She is also a member of the Groupe de Recherche Interuniversitaire en Philosophie Politique (GRIPP). She holds a MA in Political Science and a Bachelor of Social Science from the University of Ottawa. She is the former vice president of the undergraduate political science journal Topolitique (TOPO), later renamed as Undergraduate Journal of Politics, Policy and Society (UJPPS). She was also the Outreach Editor and cofounder of the photography magazine Vulgaris. Her masters thesis, The Problem of Idleness: An Arendtian Justification of Universal Basic Income in the Face of Mass Automation, written under the supervision of Robert Sparling, was award nominated.
She has lectured on the intersections of transgender and disability identities, transgender metaphysics, and published on the impact of the otokonoko genre of manga on its English speaking trans-feminine readers. Her research interests are currently focused on twentieth century political thought with a particular interest in critical theory and phenomenology.
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