Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley

Professor Pitkin received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1961. She is a political theorist whose diverse interests range from the history of European political thought from ancient to modern times, through ordinary language philosophy and textual analysis, to issues of psychoanalysis and gender in political and social theory. Professor Pitkin’s books include The Concept of Representation (1967), Wittgenstein and Justice (1972, 1984, 1992), and Fortune is a Woman: Gender and Politics in the Thought of Niccolò Machiavelli (1984), in addition to numerous articles and edited volumes. She has just published The Attack of the Blob: Hannah Arendt’s Concept of "the Social."