Social Theory

Looking Through All The Lenses

Arnold Farr's transdisciplinary perspective in building bridges across disciplines.

Welcome to the Committee on Social Theory! Our commitment is to interdisciplinary scholarship and intellectual community. Affiliated faculty and students span over a dozen departments and five schools. Our goal is to enhance graduate education, faculty research, and campus life.

Anna Secor Program Director

To fully appreciate Michelangelo’s David, one has to observe it from every vantage point. As a social theory student, Arnold Farr was similarly trained to approach academic fields of inquiry from the vantage point of several different disciplines. Now as an associate professor of philosophy, Farr has returned to the University of Kentucky and the Committee on Social Theory program that launched his own academic career. Read More

Social TheoryNews & Events

The Committee on Social Theory’s 22nd Public Lecture Series: Law, Sex, Family

Lectures will be held at 2:00 p.m. in the West End Room, 18th Floor Patterson Office Tower

Marianne Noble: The Limits of Empathy and The Promise of Sex in Walt Whitman and Julia Ward Howe

February 5th, 2pm
West End Boardroom, 18th Floor of Patterson Office Tower

Meet A&S Graduate Students

James Looney credits the Social Theory program with giving him the opportunity to read more deeply into the literatures that inform his research as well as the theoretical work being done by graduate students and researchers in other disciplines. ... more

James Looney Ph.D. Student

The Committee on Social Theory

1613 Patterson Office Tower
University of Kentucky

Lexington, KY

40506-0027

859.257.1771

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