Dr. Lillian Cicerchia is an Assistant Professor of Political Theory. Lillian received her PhD in Philosophy from Fordham University in New York City in 2020.

Research expertise

• Social and political philosophy
• Feminist philosophy
• Social theory (particular in political economy and capitalism)

Current research

She is currently working on a book manuscript titled “The Competitive Constraint: The Philosophical Foundations of Class Solidarity”.

• Feminist Theories 
• Contemporary Political Theory

Peer-Reviewed Articles

(2023) “Marx, Malthus, and the Moral Economy of Reproduction,” Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 38(3).

(2022) “Rethinking Capitalism, Stabilizing the Critique,” Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Politica (2): 63-81.

(2022) “Structural Domination in the Labor Market,” European Journal of Political Theory 21(1): 4-24. Published Online First on May 24, 2019. Accessible here: https://doi.org/10.1177/1474885119851094

(2021) “Why Does Class Matter?” Social Theory and Practice 47(4): 603-627.

(2021) “Emancipation from What and for Whom? A Materialist Critique of Recognition,” Itinerari 60: 71-91.

(2018) “Socialist Feminism and the ‘Terrain of Battle:’ Fraser, Class, and Capitalism,” Radical Philosophy Review 21(1): 153-175.

Book Reviews

(2023) "Exploitation as Domination: Why Capitalism is Unjust, Nicholas Vrousalis, Oxford University Press, 2023, 224 pages," Economics & Philosophy, 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266267123000160