Catherine Craig

Catherine Craig received her PhD from Baylor University in 2022 and is now an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus (UBCO), where she teaches courses in political theory. Previously (2021-2023), she was a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership (SCETL) at Arizona State University. There she taught several sections of Great Debates in American Politics and Economics and of Great Ideas in Politic and Ethics.

Craig’s book, Memory and the Political Art in Plato’s Statesman, was published by Lexington Press in 2023 in its “Political Theory for Today” series. She has also written articles in political thought, for example, on Plato, on Aristotle, on Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil and in politics and literature, including essays on television shows. film, mystery novels, and painting. In 2023-2024, she chaired “Politics, Literature, and the Arts for the American Political Science Association, and in 2023-24, the “Politics. Literature, and Film” section of the Midwest Political Science Association.