Robin Barklis

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Robin Barklis
Instructional Associate

Walker Hall 129

503-883-2246

rbarklis@linfield.edu

Robin Barklis loves teaching and writing about political theory and philosophy, the history of ideas, constitutionalism and public law. He is the coordinator of the law, rights and justice major and minor at Linfield, and director of the Frederick Douglass Forum on Law, Rights and Justice.

Robin’s current research is concerned with how societies remember and respond to legacies of large-scale or systematic injustice. He is currently working on two book projects. The first, Together in Time: Historical Injustice, Collective Memory, and the Boundaries of Membership, is based on dissertation research and examines the relationship between political memory and belonging in societies facing enduring histories of atrocity. The second, Landscapes of Forgetting, interprets how public understandings of land and place in the United States are imbued with mythic misrememberings of the American past.

When not teaching or writing, Robin enjoys backpacking, mountaineering, running and a wildly inefficient approach to cooking.

Education

• B.S., University Honors College, Portland State University
• M.S., University of Oregon
• M.S., Hatfield School of Government, Portland State University
• Ph.D., University of Oregon

Academic interests

Normative Political Theory, History of Political Thought, Public Law, Constitutional Law, Political Identity and Nationalism, Transitional Justice, Political Memory, Philosophy of Social Science, Hannah Arendt.