Matthew Longo
Senior Assistant Professor
- Name
- Dr. M.B. Longo
- Telephone
- +31 70 800 6601
- m.b.longo@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-2450-4903
Matthew Longo is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Leiden University.
His research sits on the intersection of political theory and international relations, and focuses on several critical issues in global politics—borders, sovereignty, and security—or how states react to the challenges posed by terrorism and immigration.
Before joining the faculty at Leiden, he was the Clayman Junior Research Fellow in Politics and Political Ideas at St Anne’s College, Oxford. He received his PhD with distinction from Yale University in 2014 and was awarded the American Political Science Association's Leo Strauss Award for the Best Doctoral Dissertation in Political Philosophy.
His book, The Politics of Borders: Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen after 9/11, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017. His work has also been published in the American Journal of Political Science and Democratization, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and has been featured in the Washington Post and National Public Radio.
› Curriculum vitae Matthew Longo
PhD supervision
Matthew Longo is available to supervise PhD students and invites PhD research proposals in the areas of:
- migration & borders
- political theory/philosophy
- interpretive methods
See for more information on PhD positions:
Senior Assistant Professor
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Instituut Politieke Wetenschap
- Longo M (2020), Ways of Seeing (The Border). In: Bissonnette A. & Vallet E. (Eds.), Borders and Border Walls: In-Security, Symbolism, Vulnerabilities. London: Routledge. 137-150.
- Zacka B., Ackerly B., Elster J., Gutnick-Allen S., Iqtidar H., Longo M. & Sagar P. (2020), Political Theory with an Ethnographic Sensibility, Contemporary Political Theory 19(4): .
- Longo M (2020), Your Body is a Passport, POLITICO : .
- Longo M.B. & Zacka B. (2019), Political Theory in an Ethnographic Key, American Political Science Review 113(4): 1066-1070.
- Longo M.B. (2019) Book Review: The Shadow of the Wall: Violence and Migration on the U.S.-Mexico Border. Review of: Slack J., Martinez D.E. & Whiteford S.. Journal of Borderlands Studies 35(1): 167-168.
- Longo M.B. (2018), Beyond Sovereign Exclusion: Progressive Alternatives to the Wall, Journal of Latin American Geography 17(3): 266-267.
- Longo M.B. (2018) Book Review: For a Left Populism by Chantal Mouffe. Review of: . LSE Review of Books .
- Longo M.B. (2018), The Politics of Borders: Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen after 9/11. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Longo M.B. (2017), From Sovereignty to Imperium: Borders, Frontiers and the Specter of Neo-Imperialism, Geopolitics 22(4): 757-771.
- Longo M.B. (2016), A “21st Century Border”? Cooperative Border Controls in the US and EU after 9/11, Journal of Borderlands Studies 31(2): 187-202.
- Longo M.B., Canetti D. & Hite-Rubin N. (2014), A Checkpoint Effect? Evidence from a Natural Experiment on Travel Restrictions in the West Bank, American Journal of Political Science 58(4): 1006-1023.
- Longo M.B. (2013), Right of Way? Defining Freedom of Movement within Democratic Societies. In: Maas W. (Ed.), Democratic Citizenship and the Free Movement of People. Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. 31-56.
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