Lea Ypi is a Professor of Political Theory in the Government Department, LSE, and Associate Professor in Philosophy at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. Before joining the LSE, she was a Post-doctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College (Oxford) and a researcher at the European University Institute where she obtained her PhD. A native of Albania, she has studied philosophy and literature at the University of Rome, La Sapienza. Her research interests include normative political theory, Enlightenment political thought, Marxism and critical theory, as well as nationalism in the intellectual history of the Balkans.

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