!!Lea Ypi - Biography
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Lea Ypi is Professor in Political Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Adjunct Professor in Philosophy at the Australian National University. She has degrees in Philosophy and Literature from the University of Rome La Sapienza and completed her PhD at the European University Institute. Prior to joining LSE, she was a Post-Doctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University, the Italian Institute for Historical Studies and the Institute for Advanced Studies in Berlin. In addition, Ypi has held visiting positions at, for instance, Stanford University (2017), the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, 2014-2015), the Centre d'études européennes at Sciences Po, Paris  (2011), the University of Frankfurt (2010, 2016), the University of Tokyo, and the Federal University of Santa Caterina in Brazil. Among her numerous publications are "Global Justice and Avant-Garde Political Agency", "The Meaning of Partisanship" (with Jonathan White), and a forthcoming book on Kant’s "Architectonic of Reason" (all with Oxford UP). Her work has been translated into French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Chinese (Mandarin), and it has earned her the British Academy Prize for Excellence in Political Science, Leverhulme Prize for Outstanding Research, or the Montreal Manuscript Award. Her grants come, for instance, from the Humboldt Foundation (€ 83.000), EU Horizon 2020 (€ 544.500), the Leverhulme Fund (100,000 GBP), the Australian Research Council (A$ 309,000 over 3 years, 2011-4), among others. Ypi has given over a hundred invited lectures, including at Chicago, Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Cambridge, Oxford, UCL, Paris, Rome, Frankfurt, Berlin, Prague, Leiden, Uppsala, Barcelona, Oslo, St Andrews, Bristol, Montreal, Toronto, Beijing, Kyoto, and Melbourne. She regularly contributes to the Guardian, the New Statesman, The Independent, Jacobin Magazine, and to BBC Radio and TV panels and debates.\\ \\